What we are...

From the beginning, we decided that we were a collective. In broad terms, this has involved making consensual decisions on everything from the title of an exhibition to the pricing of individual works, and holding ‘residencies’, where we spend time together for a couple of days exchanging ideas and skills.

What we do...

Since its inception in 2015, Grid Collective has had four exhibitions and organized two residencies.

Exhibitions

Playing with the Grid, Celbridge, Co Kildare, February 2017

So many options..., Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, November 2017

Hope and Rebirth, McAuley Place, Naas, Co Kildare, March 2022

Geometry was not my mother tongue, Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin, July 2022

Residencies

Duncannon, Duncannon, Co Wexford 2015

Roosky, Roosky, Co Roscommon 2017

How we work...

How does an art collective work? We cannot speak for others, but this will give some idea of how Grid Collective goes about creating collaboratively.

Our approach is to bring elements of our different practices together by creating individual pieces and a collective piece, or pieces, in a broad critical response to a theme or criterion. Our work tends to the abstract and conceptual, but we aim to maintain an underlying coherence reflecting the collaborative process.

As part of its practice, Grid Collective spends some time exploring ways of collaborating. This often involves one member beginning a piece, than handing it over to another for 'intervention', and so on, until all members have worked on it. The rule is there are no rules - if one member takes apart what another member has done, so be it!