London/Brighton-based artist Paula Rae Grundy is currently enrolled in the Painting MA programme at the Royal College of Art. Her practice explores materiality and embodied process, informed by an early foundation in printmaking and installation.

She completed a BA in South Africa in 1992, majoring in etching and mixed media installation, graduating with a First and receiving a prestigious scholarship to pursue postgraduate study. Following this, she shifted her focus toward collaboration and design, working in the advertising industry for nearly twenty years.

Returning to her fine art practice, she has recently exhibited at Salon 0502 (2026) and Shifting Realities at the Hockney Gallery (2026). Earlier exhibitions include the Community Arts Centre, Durban (1992), National Arts Trust Exhibition, Durban (1994), The National Arts Festival (1994), Sub-Version, Community Arts Centre, Durban (1995) and Encounters, BAT, Durban (1995).

Her current work reflects a renewed engagement with material experimentation and the relationship between memory, landscape, surface, and form. Using fabrics such as muslin cloth—materials often associated with bodily care and birth—she draws paint through the surface, allowing the fabric to function as both veil and skin. Through this process-led approach, she stages encounters between material, gesture, and surface that evoke embodied experience, exploring the tensions between care and violence, repair and rupture, while tracing their connection to the landscapes of her childhood