SHIFT – Cléa van der Grijn

Paintings

Go ask Alice — Go ask Alice, Mixed media on linen, 152cm x 152cm

Triangle SHIFT by Clea van der Grijn — Triangle, Mixed media on linen 2001- 2021, 152 cm x 76 cm

One pill makes you larger — One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small, Mixed media on linen, 104 x 104 cm

The best way to explain it is to do it Clean van der Grijn 2021 — The best way to explain it is to do it, Mixed media on linen, 104 cm x 104 cm

It's no secret painting by Clea van der Grijn — It's no secret, Mixed media on linen, 104 cm x 104 cm

Feel it, Mixed media linen — Feel it, Mixed media linen, 104cm x 104cm

Curiouser + curiouser, Mixed media linen — Curiouser + curiouser, Mixed media linen, 152cm x 152cm

Its no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then, Mixed Media — Its no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then, Mixed Media, 152cm x 152cm

Lovely lick, Mixed media linen, — Lovely lick, Mixed media linen, 104cm x 104cm

White rabbit, Mixed media — White rabbit, Mixed media on linen,152 cm x 76 cm

mixed media linen — Way to blue, Mixed media linen, 104 cm x 104 cm

i do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much — i do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much, Mixed media on linen, 104cm x104cm

HOW LONG IS FOREVER..

A narrow Joy, Mixed Media on Line — A narrow Joy, Mixed Media on Linen, 198 cm x 108 cm

St. Pat’s series works on paper 2021 78cm x 48cm — St. Pat’s series, works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series works on paper 2021 78cm x 48cm — St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

Triangle SHIFT by Clea van der Grijn

One pill makes you larger

The best way to explain it is to do it Clean van der Grijn 2021

It's no secret painting by Clea van der Grijn

Feel it, Mixed media linen

Curiouser + curiouser, Mixed media linen

Its no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then, Mixed Media

Lovely lick, Mixed media linen,

White rabbit, Mixed media

mixed media linen

i do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much

HOW LONG IS FOREVER..

A narrow Joy, Mixed Media on Line

St. Pat’s series works on paper 2021 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series works on paper 2021 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

St. Pat’s series, Works on paper, 78cm x 48cm

Publication

Essays

Author: Dr Marie Naughton

I was truly honoured to be asked to contribute to Cléa Van der Grijn’s exhibition of SHIFT. I see this as an important role for me and indeed all who work in mental health; that role of advocacy and helping to reduce stigma. As some may be aware, I have come to know Cléa in…

Author: Dr Veronica O'Neill

SHIFT comes both in the wake of and the process of FLUX—like the climax of a tsunami, FLUX leaves behind an altered landscape. Nothing is the same. With SHIFT, van der Grijn explores this landscape, going to the outer edges of emotions and depicting emotional dysregulation, but as a means of disinterested exploration of what…

Author: Niall MacMonagle

November 07 2021

Ireland-born Cléa van der Grijn spent her childhood between Amsterdam and Dublin. Her artist father Erik van der Grijn’s “disciplined studio practice, the space, the solitude” impressed her and “the smell of turps still triggers my olfactory senses”. Never allowed in his studio, she was, she says, “excluded from a process I unconsciously yearned for”…