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Haley Craw

Artist Haley Craw standing in front of a tall figurative painting installation.

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BFA · Class of 2017

www.haleycraw.com/

Haley Craw is an interdisciplinary artist based in Norwich, United Kingdom. Craw has exhibited work across both the UK and Canada, such as Hungate Medieval Art (solo exhibition, Norwich), The Campbell Gallery (Eye, UK) and Art Gallery of NWT (Yellowknife).

On the threshold between the internal and external world, 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.

This Vision was Living and Vivid and Hideous and Fearful and Sweet and Lovely Oil on canvas, 12ft x 3.95ft, 2024. Installed in Haley Craw's solo exhibition Touching Spirit Through Flesh at Hungate Medieval Art, Norwich, UK, 2025.
Within Sensitive Sound Oil on canvas, 122cm x 102cm, 2025.
I Have Absorbed the Earth Oil and soft pastel on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2026. Installed in Haley Craw's solo exhibition Alchemical Body in the Campbell Gallery, Eye, UK.
All Mouth Becoming Performance by Haley Craw and Charlotte Arculus at Hungate Medieval Art, part of Craw's solo exhibition Touching Spirit Through Flesh, 2025.

Haley Craw's Work

Haley Craw's Work Monumental multi-panel figurative painting installed in a medieval church gallery depicting an abstract human form in flowing red, blue, and violet tones.
This Vision was Living and Vivid and Hideous and Fearful and Sweet and Lovely

Oil on canvas, 12ft x 3.95ft, 2024. Installed in Haley Craw's solo exhibition Touching Spirit Through Flesh at Hungate Medieval Art, Norwich, UK, 2025.
Haley Craw's Work Surreal oil painting of an abstract deer-like figure intertwined with flowing organic forms in warm red and blue tones.
Within Sensitive Sound Oil on canvas, 122cm x 102cm, 2025.
Haley Craw's Work Large figurative painting of a seated figure surrounded by swirling organic forms, installed in a contemporary gallery.
I Have Absorbed the Earth Oil and soft pastel on canvas, 122cm x 107cm, 2026. Installed in Haley Craw's solo exhibition Alchemical Body in the Campbell Gallery, Eye, UK.
Haley Craw's Work Performance artist reaching upward beside a monumental figurative painting in a historic church gallery.
All Mouth Becoming Performance by Haley Craw and Charlotte Arculus at Hungate Medieval Art, part of Craw's solo exhibition Touching Spirit Through Flesh, 2025.

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