ABOUT
Grace Hoyle (Lima, 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Madrid. Her work weaves together photography and textile processes to explore memory, perception, and emotion through a tactile and meditative lens. Guided by a deep interest in how we remember, her images evoke a sense of timelessness and ambiguity—often blurring the lines between what is personal and what is found.
Grace studied photography at The School of Visual Arts in New York and at the Centro de la Imagen in Lima, and later trained in Expressive Arts Therapy at TAE Peru. In 2018, she received Second Prize in the Pampa Energía FOLA competition at FOLA Fototeca Latinoamericana in Buenos Aires with her project Acto Fallido.
Her current work focuses on expanding the boundaries of the photographic image by experimenting with materials such as fabric, glass, and microscope slides. Through these surfaces, she creates visually and physically layered pieces that invite slow, intimate engagement.
She is currently engaged in new projects and welcomes professional inquiries related to exhibitions, residencies, and collaborations.
STATEMENT
My work explores the emotional and perceptual layers of memory through photography and material intervention. I begin with photographic images—my own and sometimes archival—that I transform through tactile processes such as printing on fabric, glass, or microscope slides, and sewing directly into the surface. These gestures turn photographs into objects: fragile, textured, and multidimensional.
I am drawn to the instability of the image and the way memory softens, erases, or distorts. Rather than offering clarity, my work embraces ambiguity, absence, and imperfection as expressive tools. The timelessness of the image is central—colors, textures, and formats often detach the photographs from a fixed era or origin, making it unclear whether they are personal or found. This deliberate uncertainty blurs the boundaries between the intimate and the collective, the remembered and the imagined.
Through this process, I seek to create spaces of slow looking and intuitive engagement, where images can be felt as much as seen. My practice is both conceptual and physical—an ongoing movement between inner landscapes and material experimentation, where photography expands into something tactile, layered, and deeply human.
Image made by Laura May Grogan