About
Haley Craw was born in Calgary, Canada where she received her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts. Relocating to England, she is currently based in Norwich, Norfolk. Craw has exhibited work across both the United Kingdom and Canada, such as Anteros Arts Foundation (Norwich), Art Gallery of NWT (Yellowknife), UKNA City Takeover (Nottingham), and Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary). Her work has also been featured on the BBC.
Haley Craw's work is a psychological landscape inhabited by bodies in continual transformation; bouncing between tenderness and rage, they vibrate with layers of emotional ambiguity. Using charcoal, pastel, and oil paint, she works intuitively to allow figures to emerge through line, colour and gesture. Charged openings reoccur in her work, shapes that imply an indeterminate borderline between the internal and external physicality of the body. The caverns, crevices and grottos of the feminine emerge, fluid forms that beckon you within yet maintain their powerful mystery. Rather than the feminine being on display in a manner that is easily consumed, the female gaze asserts herself in Craw’s work by moving unashamedly between borders, emerging then disappearing once more. Abstracted bodily forms shift, mirror, and blend into their environment, resulting in a perpetual balancing act of creation and destruction, longing and loss. Suggesting desire, fear, passion and pain, Craw’s work portrays the several shifting selves that come in and out of existence through abstract feelings and fragmented fictions.
Education
2013-2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts With Distinction, Drawing Major, Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art & Design). Calgary, Canada.
Solo Exhibitions
2023
BOUNCING OFF CAVE WALLS. OUTPOST Studios Project Space, Gildengate House. Norwich, UK.
2017
Fallen. Window Gallery Arts Commons, Calgary, Canada.
Her Potential For Corruption. Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT Space in conjunction with Sled Island Festival, Calgary, Canada.
Group Exhibitions
2024
TBA 5 Years. The Shoe Factory, St. Mary’s Works, Norwich, UK.
A Hot Minute. Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
A Hot Minute. Ashdale Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
A Hot Minute. Gallery Merrick, Victoria, Canada.
Embrace of Madness. Artsin Square Online Exhibition.
Flora. Fern and Glade Online Exhibition.
2023
The Turner House Open Exhibition. The Turner House, Penarth, Wales, UK.
OUTPOST Studios Studio Holder Show. Gildengate House, Norwich, UK.
Unconsumed. The Shoe Factory, St. Mary’s Works, Norwich, UK.
SINCE WE SAW YOU LAST: 4th Annual Postcard Fundraiser. Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada.
2022
TBA 007: Carnival. The Undercroft Gallery, Market Square, Norwich, UK.
The Plank - In Residence. Anteros Arts Foundation Main Gallery, Norwich, UK.
OUTPOST Studios Summer Show. Gildengate House, Norwich, UK.
StudioUS. PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth, UK.
A ROOM OF HER OWN. Irving Contemporary Online Exhibition, Oxford, UK.
2021
OUTPOST Studios Summer Show. Gildengate House, Norwich, UK.
Figura 21: Figurative Art of the Region. Curated by Em-Re-Un Art, St Margaret’s The Church of Art, Norwich, UK.
Naked in Norwich! Norwich 20 Group Life Drawing Exhibition. St Margaret’s The Church of Art, Norwich, UK.
Feral Feelings, Fading Flora. Two person exhibition with Nicole Haywood. Art Gallery of NWT, Yellowknife, Canada.
Embodiment. Marion Nicoll Gallery online exhibition in conjunction with Exposure, Alberta’s Photography Festival, Calgary, Canada.
2019
UKNA City Takeover: Nottingham. Live performance in St. Mary’s Rest Garden, Nottingham, UK.
Cley 19 Borderlines. Cley Contemporary, curated by Dyad Creative. Cley next the Sea, UK.
OUTPOST Studio Holders Show. Gildengate House, Norwich, UK.
Ecstasy In Norwich (Part Two). Lower.Green, Norwich, UK.
2018
Cornish Weekender Residency Open Visit, Porthmeor Studio, St. Ives, UK.
Do More With More. Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada
IKG Live 2. Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2017
ACAD Summer Studio Residency Exhibition. Alberta University of the Arts Main Mall, Calgary, Canada.
Grad Show 2017. Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
Source Material II: Unfolding. Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox, British Columbia, Canada.
Shape-Shifters. Alberta University of the Arts, Room 371, Calgary, Canada.
3rd ACAD Film Festival. Globe Cinema, Calgary, Canada.
2016
If You’ve Come This Far. HEAR/D Residency Exhibition. Main Mall, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada.
2015
Feminist Art Conference 2015. Great Hall Exhibition Space, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.
Residencies
2018
Cornish Weekender, UKYA and Porthmeor Studio. Programmed by Claudio Zecchi, including guest artists Chiara Dellerba and Andy Harper. St. Ives, Cornwall, UK.
2017
Alberta University of the Arts Summer Studio Residency, Calgary, Canada.
HEAR/D Residency Mentor position, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada.
2016
HEAR/D Residency Artist 2016, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada.
Curation
Waves Through Fog. HEAR/D Residency 2017 Exhibition, Main Mall Alberta University of the Arts. Calgary, Canada.
Shape-Shifters. Room 371, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada. Featuring Sondra Meszaros, Eva Cournoyer, Ryan Danny Owen, Dominic Pinney.
Interviews and Features
Artsin Square Selected Artist Feature.
The State University of New York at Albany, interview hosted by Simeon Youngmann for AART305: Intermediate Drawing.
Featured in Friend of The Artist, The Studio Image Project Book.
How To Give A Shit No 12, Other Faiths (p 2), Venison Magazine. Interview with Joshua Hagler.
BBC Nottingham artist feature video segment for UK Young Artists Nottingham City Takeover.
BBC Nottingham morning radio interview for UKYA Nottingham City Takeover.
Exhibition essay for THE HOURS WE WAIT, Dominic Pinney and Ryan Danny Owen, TRUCK Contemporary U-Hall Space, Calgary, AB.
Featured visual artist for Filling Station Issue #65, Canada’s Experimental Literary Magazine.
Feminist Art Conference 2015, ‘Faith, Tradition and Spirituality’ panelist.