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Elaine Grainger

– Casa Wabi 2026

Community Project

In an exploration of how nature is perceived through the senses, the project How to Tread Lightly: Leaving Our Mark guided a group of nursing students on several walks, each focusing on a specific sense. When a visual or auditory element caught their attention, the group concentrated on it and then drew freely. This ongoing activity created maps that, in addition to depicting territory, revealed sensations, ideas, and emotions, allowing them to grasp the landscape in a unique and personal way.

Log-Piece

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    Ireland

    Dublin, 1972

    Elaine Grainger is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her multidisciplinary practice spans sculptural intervention, performance, drawing, moving-image, and sound, forming a constantly evolving system of gestures, materials, and embodied encounters. She is interested in the processes of transformation that unfold between body and environment—moments in which we alternately act and are acted upon, and where presence exists in a fragile, almost dissolving state, much of Grainger’s work seeks to reveal these liminal thresholds. Each site she works within becomes a collaborator. Through repetitive, attentive movement, she builds a sensory and visual inventory of place—a form of embodied research that allows the body to absorb and translate spatial knowledge.

    Elaine Grainger returned to education and completed an MFA in NCAD, Dublin (2018). Shortlisted for RDS Visual Arts Awards (2018), winner of RDS Centre Culturel Irlandais Residency Award (2018). Royal Hibernian Academy, Peer Residency Award, Dublin, Ireland (2019). Recent exhibition and performance: Moving Through Things, South Tipperary Arts Centre and Chapel, (2025) Selected Exhibitions: Echo Mapping, PINK, Manchester (2025) Holding on Lightly, The LAB Gallery, Dublin (2023) You observe, I observed, Juxtapose, Aarhus, Denmark (2023) Undone, Körpasstradir Gallery, Reykjavik (2022) Visible Island, Dublin (2021) The possibilities of place, CCI, Paris + TBG&S, Dublin (2019) The gap between noise, The Complex, Dublin (2019). Selected Residences: Centre Cultural Irlandais ,Paris 2019, PADA, Lisbon 2020, SIM, Iceland 2022, SAIKONEON, Saiko, Japan 2024.