Oona Grimes is a London based artist renowned for her work in drawing, clay and film.
She merges flattist collage, print and painting with sculptural objects and filmed performances.

Grimes’s work reflects a deep obsession with language, exploring its beginnings and ends, and the nuances of learning and losing it. Her characters often represent the unseen and the unlovely, wrapped in fuzzy felt drawings that blend Commedia dell’arte slapstick with comic strip aesthetics.

During her 2018 Bridget Riley fellowship at the British School at Rome, Grimes researched Etruscan tomb paintings and Neorealist cinema, creating mis-remembered re-enactments that physically integrate her into the film frame.

Grimes graduated from Norwich School of Art [1986] and the Slade School of Fine art [1988]. She was awarded the Bryan Robertson Award in 2022 and elected to the Royal Academy in 2023. Until recently a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art and Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University.