Grace McNerney

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

McNerney’s paintings are a pursuit through popular culture in search of the undercurrent of sex, religion, and death that underpins consumer imagery. Her work challenges the algorithms and images we are exposed to everyday, simultaneously informing and describing our tastes. Through her library of ‘low-brow’ media McNerney is in search of the images that tell the stories of the people who once owned them. Her work revolves around the idea of the media we own and consume outlasting and telling our stories for us. While often very ‘of their time’ they somehow follow us through elapses of decades and evolutions in media, informing the generation of new popular culture icons that aren’t as innovative as they might first appear.

Artwork