Haley Craw was born in Calgary, Canada where she received her BFA from the Alberta University of the Arts. Relocating to England, she is currently based in Norwich, UK. Craw has exhibited work across both the United Kingdom and Canada, such as Hungate Medieval Art (solo exhibition, Norwich), Art Gallery of NWT (Yellowknife), UKNA City Takeover (Nottingham), and Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary).
On the threshold between the internal and external world, Haley Craw’s unruly figures inhabit a paradoxical realm they refuse to fully define. Through drawing, painting and performance, her creative process is led by embodied knowledge, intuitively responding to the raw material of vulnerability, longing and curiosity. Craw approaches painting as a process that embraces the condition of transformation itself, somatic expression acts as an alchemical refiner of emotion and sensation. Inspired by feminist literature, medieval women, folklore and mysticism, she explores the permeable boundary between the witch and the saint. Animal familiars root the figures in the earth, their characteristics guiding a path with instinct, sensitivity, and wild protective care. By embracing instability, the body intertwines with the spirit and perception remains fluid, shifting and dissolving.
Education
2013-2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts With Distinction, Drawing Major, Alberta University of the Arts (formerly Alberta College of Art & Design). Calgary, Canada.
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Alchemical Body. The Campbell Gallery, Eye, UK.
2025
Touching Spirit Through Flesh. Hungate Medieval Art, Norwich, UK.
2023
BOUNCING OFF CAVE WALLS. OUTPOST Studios Project Space, Gildengate House. Norwich, UK.
2017
Fallen. Window Gallery Arts Commons, Calgary, Canada.
Her Potential For Corruption. Marion Nicoll Gallery LRT Space in conjunction with Sled Island Festival, Calgary, Canada.
Group Exhibitions
2026
Folklore, Anteros Arts Foundation, Norwich, UK.
2025
Zuckertute, St Margaret’s Gallery, Norwich, UK.
2024
Unconsumed II. The Shoe Factory, St. Mary’s Works, Norwich, UK.
Lines on a Surface. The Bank Gallery, Eye, UK.
TBA 5 Years. The Shoe Factory, St. Mary’s Works, Norwich, UK.
A Hot Minute. Christine Klassen Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
A Hot Minute. Ashdale Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
A Hot Minute. Gallery Merrick, Victoria, Canada.
Embrace of Madness. Artsin Square Online Exhibition.
Flora. Fern and Glade Online Exhibition.
2023
The Turner House Open Exhibition. The Turner House, Penarth, Wales, UK.
Unconsumed. The Shoe Factory, St. Mary’s Works, Norwich, UK.
SINCE WE SAW YOU LAST: 4th Annual Postcard Fundraiser. Truck Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada.
2022
TBA 007: Carnival. The Undercroft Gallery, Market Square, Norwich, UK.
The Plank - In Residence. Anteros Arts Foundation Main Gallery, Norwich, UK.
StudioUS. PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth, UK.
A ROOM OF HER OWN. Irving Contemporary Online Exhibition, Oxford, UK.
2021
Figura 21: Figurative Art of the Region. Curated by Em-Re-Un Art, St Margaret’s The Church of Art, Norwich, UK.
Naked in Norwich! Norwich 20 Group Life Drawing Exhibition. St Margaret’s The Church of Art, Norwich, UK.
Feral Feelings, Fading Flora. Two person exhibition with Nicole Haywood. Art Gallery of NWT, Yellowknife, Canada.
Embodiment. Marion Nicoll Gallery online exhibition in conjunction with Exposure, Alberta’s Photography Festival, Calgary, Canada.
2019
UKNA City Takeover: Nottingham. Live performance in St. Mary’s Rest Garden, Nottingham, UK.
Cley 19 Borderlines. Cley Contemporary, curated by Dyad Creative. Cley next the Sea, UK.
OUTPOST Studio Holders Show. Gildengate House, Norwich, UK.
Ecstasy In Norwich (Part Two). Lower.Green, Norwich, UK.
2018
Cornish Weekender Residency Open Visit, Porthmeor Studio, St. Ives, UK.
Do More With More. Stride Gallery, Calgary, Canada
IKG Live 2. Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
2017
ACAD Summer Studio Residency Exhibition. Alberta University of the Arts Main Mall, Calgary, Canada.
Grad Show 2017. Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Calgary, Canada.
Source Material II: Unfolding. Comox Valley Art Gallery, Comox, British Columbia, Canada.
Shape-Shifters. Alberta University of the Arts, Room 371, Calgary, Canada.
3rd ACAD Film Festival. Globe Cinema, Calgary, Canada.
2016
If You’ve Come This Far. HEAR/D Residency Exhibition. Main Mall, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada.
2015
Feminist Art Conference 2015. Great Hall Exhibition Space, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada.
Residencies
2018
Cornish Weekender, UKYA and Porthmeor Studio. Programmed by Claudio Zecchi, including guest artists Chiara Dellerba and Andy Harper. St. Ives, Cornwall, UK.
2017
Alberta University of the Arts Summer Studio Residency, Calgary, Canada.
HEAR/D Residency Mentor position, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada.
2016
HEAR/D Residency Artist 2016, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada.
Curation
Waves Through Fog. HEAR/D Residency 2017 Exhibition, Main Mall Alberta University of the Arts. Calgary, Canada.
Shape-Shifters. Room 371, Alberta University of the Arts, Calgary, Canada. Featuring Sondra Meszaros, Eva Cournoyer, Ryan Danny Owen, Dominic Pinney.
Workshop Facilitation
Drawing as Embodied Self Trust. The Bank Arts Centre, Eye, UK.
Interviews and Features
Artist talk at Hungate Medieval Art in conjunction with the solo exhbition Touching Spirit Through Flesh. Joined by Dr Charlotte Arculus and Frances Martin.
‘Artists, Save Yourselves! At this moment in time, does my art matter? Does yours?’ Gallerieswest, article by Sarah Swan.
Artsin Square Selected Artist Feature.
The State University of New York at Albany, guest artist interview hosted by Simeon Youngmann for AART305: Intermediate Drawing.
Featured in Friend of The Artist, The Studio Image Project Book.
How To Give A Shit No 12, Other Faiths (p 2), Venison Magazine. Interview with Joshua Hagler.
BBC Nottingham artist feature video segment for UK Young Artists Nottingham City Takeover.
BBC Nottingham morning radio interview for UKYA Nottingham City Takeover.
Exhibition essay for THE HOURS WE WAIT, Dominic Pinney and Ryan Danny Owen, TRUCK Contemporary U-Hall Space, Calgary, AB.
Featured visual artist for Filling Station Issue #65, Canada’s Experimental Literary Magazine.
Feminist Art Conference 2015, ‘Faith, Tradition and Spirituality’ panelist.