Master of Fine Art School of Fine Art
Katie Grenville
Katie Grenville (they/she, b. 1997, London UK) is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, film-making, drawing, textiles, performance, writing, signwriting, and installation.
Katie’s practice is an ever-expanding celebration of making that acknowledges creating and crafting as a source of empowerment, joy and agency. Their work often explores themes of labour, sexuality and heritage, as well as the politics of gender, the body, and humour. Katie examines these themes and more from a distinctly playful and queer radical-feminist viewpoint.
Long Live the DIY.
Hares On The Mountain – Digital Short Film
This film is a feminist exploration of rural landscapes of the North of England and nods to the traditional English folk song “Hares on a Mountain”, which was popularised by Shirley Collins in the 1950s but was also sung/released by Cecil Sharp in 1903, Louise Hooper in the late 19th century and most recently by Radie Peat of LANKUM in 2018. This film, which features me singing extracts from the song, contributes to the multi-generational lineage of female voices that have related to the song, which, passed down through oral tradition, has remained powerfully unchanged for hundreds of years. This film was shot at The Roaches, near Leek, Staffordshire.
Camera operator: Alfie Anderson. No animals were harmed in the making of this work.
