ABOUT

Gracia Carr is a UK-based artist known for her coloured pencil depictions of famous faces and moments, using social media to give people a look into her world.

Her career began in Marketing, a strategic way to merge her skill for written communication and visual, and her art took the form of filling sketchbooks on the commute. Since moving to London last year, she started drawing famous faces: realising she had the same child-like awe of the mythical world of celebrities, as she did with the animations she grew up watching.

As a millennial baby, she was raised on old Disney animation, Barbie and believing fairies were at the bottom of her garden. Having since returned from London to rural England, Gracia’s manifesto is tied to merging the magic of the nature and the man-made.

With the digital world arguably being more prominent than the physical, Gracia is part of a generation that feels torn between the two. As much as we want to escape the screen, she knows magic lives there too. As much as nature grounds her, there’s a world of inspiration that she can only access through her phone.

This silver thread, has allowed her to find balance in the noise, see how the two work together, and recognise the same magic lives in both; and can co-exist side-by-side. Her art aims to harmonise the two. Not to compete. Not to exist as opposing forces. Not as something you have to choose between.

Through her sketchy coloured-pencil drawings, she’s gifting adults who still love popular culture, storytelling and that magical awe, a way to own and honour these special moments outside of a screen.

Her work constantly reminds us that the magic is within US; as an individual and as a collective. The adult world has created stories people yearn for even when they have grown up, and these magical moments we experience on a stage, or on our screen, are constructed by a team of believers and visionaries, who persistently choose to see the world through the same magical, child-like lens.

How else do we see the world, if not romantically?