AN ELLESMERE woman will have her work displayed in a virtual exhibition after completing her degree in fine art.

Grace Currie will have her work featured in Chester University’s third -year art and design final show exhibition, entitled Bloom.

Grace has had cognitive impairment since she suffered a brain injury in 2010 after being hit by a car, and since the accident has shown a passion for art.

Three years after enrolling on a BA Fine Art course at Chester University, Grace has finished her studies and will now see her work presented virtually.

Grace has been documenting her work through her blog site, and the theme of her exhibition looks at identity, specifically her own struggle to resist the single identity of being disabled.

"I have finalised my selection and hanging preferences," said Grace. "These are from my ‘Identity Series’ – work exploring the challenges to my identity in a situation of 24/7 care due to serious acquired brain injury.

"After taking advice from tutors (my 'curators'), I am choosing the four which seem the most powerful – strange characters who express something very personal and hence, I hope, universal – something others can be moved by too.

"They will hang with two central static figures framed by two almost dancing figures both waving one arm.

"In a non-virtual show they would hang provisionally on a variety of casual fittings, pegs and nails in keeping with the 'provisional' nature of my identity, perhaps of all identities."

The exhibition will take place from 6pm online on Friday, June 12 and can be accessed at www.cascgallery.co.uk