Connie Gray
Curator
Connie Gray is a curator. She has long had a fascination and love of original fashion illustration, stemming from her father's career as an art dealer who collected original fashion illustration long before it became fashionable.
Following a career in broadcasting, she established the art gallery Gray MCA with her husband, Ashley Gray. Her love of historical fashion and fashion illustration led her naturally back to her roots, and she specialises in uncovering and showcasing the very best of original fashion illustration from its heyday post-war to the 1970s.
Gray is regularly invited to lecture on fashion illustration and the historical importance of these now-rare original works. She travels extensively worldwide rediscovering the original works by the masters of the genre to exhibit at the annual Drawing on Style exhibitions. During the exhibitions she also gives daily talks exploring the life and works of the artists and their astonishing breadth of work. Her ambition is to re-establish the evocative and endlessly elegant work of the great fashion illustrators as the missing school of art, in the tradition of the finest painters of the mid-20th century.
Connie Gray is a curator. She has long had a fascination and love of original fashion illustration, stemming from her father's career as an art dealer who collected original fashion illustration long before it became fashionable.
Following a career in broadcasting, she established the art gallery Gray MCA with her husband, Ashley Gray. Her love of historical fashion and fashion illustration led her naturally back to her roots, and she specialises in uncovering and showcasing the very best of original fashion illustration from its heyday post-war to the 1970s.
Gray is regularly invited to lecture on fashion illustration and the historical importance of these now-rare original works. She travels extensively worldwide rediscovering the original works by the masters of the genre to exhibit at the annual Drawing on Style exhibitions. During the exhibitions she also gives daily talks exploring the life and works of the artists and their astonishing breadth of work. Her ambition is to re-establish the evocative and endlessly elegant work of the great fashion illustrators as the missing school of art, in the tradition of the finest painters of the mid-20th century.
