Hey, I’m Gracie Phillips, a multidisciplinary artist based in Athens, GA.

My creative work includes printmaking, photography and painting as I use each medium to influence the other. I explore themes of transition and belonging through both imagery and process. Born in the States and raised abroad in Turkey and Wales, my practice is shaped by my own experiences of movement, change, shifting identities within different environments. How we navigate the space between familiarity and displacement. 

Photography serves as the foundation of my practice, creating scenes of natural forms or spaces of comfort that feel both independent of or subtly marked by my human presence through light, shadows and color. I am interested in the tension between the constructed and the organic, how traces of human interaction exist within otherwise autonomous environments. In my recent work, Liminal, I began incorporating the human figure into the spaces I photograph, exploring embodiment and questioning what it means to fully inhabit an environment, both physically and psychologically.

These scenes eventually influence my printmaking work. taking the image and creating layered screen prints with transitioning colors and halftones exploring change within the composition. Or I carve linocuts detailing or creating differences between light and shadows to highlight the movement within natural forms. Within this process I aim to create immersive works that reflect emotions and complexity of transition and belonging.

Working across mediums allows me to build layered compositions that mirror lived experience. My interdisciplinary approach reflects an interest in accumulation and overlap, where images, textures, and processes interact to create a sense of depth and immersion.