Altea Grau is a practicing artist and researcher based in London. Her artwork explores the concept of reading and the suggestion of text. She uses the metaphor of the double page spread as a place to develop site-specific practice to investigate the meaning that emerges from the engagement with the visual, spatial, material and connotative properties of an ‘opened book.’ The use of printmaking within Altea’s work has an important impact in the way she develops a visual language, investigating the symbolic power of the duality, echo, mirroring and the notion of fold in order to propose a new dialogue with the form and idea of page. Altea’s work has been exhibited internationally and she often develops her artwork in residencies and placements. Her work is part of collections including the V&A Library, Chelsea and Leeds Special Collection, DKV Foundation, CMGV (Spain) and the Harold Berg Collection amongst others.
Altea holds a BA and MA in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and a PhD in Visual Arts by the University of the Arts London. Altea combines her art-practice with an academic position as printmaking tutor at Goldsmiths University.
Altea Grau is a practicing artist and researcher based in London. Her artwork explores the concept of reading and the suggestion of text. She uses the metaphor of the double page spread as a place to develop site-specific practice to investigate the meaning that emerges from the engagement with the visual, spatial, material and connotative properties of an ‘opened book.’ The use of printmaking within Altea’s work has an important impact in the way she develops a visual language, investigating the symbolic power of the duality, echo, mirroring and the notion of fold in order to propose a new dialogue with the form and idea of page. Altea’s work has been exhibited internationally and she often develops her artwork in residencies and placements. Her work is part of collections including the V&A Library, Chelsea and Leeds Special Collection, DKV Foundation, CMGV (Spain) and the Harold Berg Collection amongst others.
Altea holds a BA and MA in Fine Arts by the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and a PhD in Visual Arts by the University of the Arts London. Altea combines her art-practice with an academic position as printmaking tutor at Goldsmiths University.
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