Audrey Grant is an award-winning painter who also experiments in drawing, photography and installation. Her painting practice has been driven by her exploration of the act of painting, the materiality of paint and the painted surface. Grant’s work is underpinned by intellectual ideas derived from, and inspired by, poetry, literature and philosophy. She explored the complex nature of long- durational drawing in her first major public exhibition, The Long Look: The Making of a Portrait with the National Galleries of Scotland in 2019 and had her fourth solo exhibition, Paradise with Panter and Hall, London in 2020. Grant’s work has regularly been selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Society of Scottish Artists and Visual Arts Scotland Open exhibitions. She won the W. Gordon Smith Award in 2018 and the Anne Redpath Award in 2013 at the VAS Open. At the SSA Open she was awarded the Tatha Gallery Exhibition Prize in 2019 and the Open Eye Gallery Exhibition Prize in 2015. Following awards from the RSA and Creative Scotland to explore real and imagined landscapes, she expanded her practice into site-specific installation with Inscriptions in Arcadia at the Bothkennar Pools, near Skinflats in 2021.