Contemporary Fine Art
Working across photography and painting, Chris Grieve explores how light, movement and deep time shape our experience of the world.
Chris is a UK-based photographer and painter whose work explores our relationship with the world, particularly the sea and coastal landscapes. Her practice often begins with photography and involves integrating photographic imagery into painting. Chris’s artistic practice emerged from a lifelong engagement with change — in people, organisations and the environments we inhabit. After many years working internationally in sustainability and leadership development, she turned to creative practice as another way of exploring complexity, transformation and the relationships that shape living systems. Her work reflects a deep curiosity about how meaning, pattern and connection emerge over time.
Chris’s work is held in private collections in the UK, Europe and Australia.
Consulting Services
Since 2005, Meridian Prime has delivered results on the following topics:
- Organisational development for Boards, senior executives, senior management teams
- Strategic review of governance structures for NGOs & non-profits
- Assessment & peer review of fisheries against Marine Stewardship Council sustainability standards
- Gender equality certification scheme requirements, standards development, auditing & training protocols
- Development & implementation of theories of change and M & E frameworks on the impact of voluntary sustainability standards
- Development of Codes of Good Practice for standard-setting, impact assessment & assurance for voluntary sustainability standards
- Best practice guides for stakeholder engagement on complex technical & scientific topics
- One-to-one executive coaching of leaders in small-large organisations
- Strategy development & planning
- Design & delivery of training programmes
- Development & facilitation of network & stakeholder engagement events
- Funding application peer reviews
- Sustainability standards development
- Ecosystem-based marine & fisheries management policies & principles
- Assessing the impact of voluntary sustainability standards systems
Testimonials
We’re proud to work with amazing clients and even prouder of the results we deliver. Here’s what some of them have to say about their experience with us.
“Chris brings a high level of energy, experience and innovation to her work in implementing the mission of Meridian Prime. Business, government and NGOs can all benefit from her professional executive coaching and her commitment to developing practical solutions to sustainability challenges.”
Executive Director
“Chris is a highly professional and easy to work with facilitator, mentor and coach, with deep content knowledge in her chosen expertise. She has always been generous with her time and contribution to The Environment Council and adds a great deal of value to our partnership work.”
former CEO
“Chris worked through an organisational effectiveness process with our team in an internationally dispersed non-profit. Engaging with the Trustees and executive staff, Chris helped us see the big picture and explore multiple perspectives and needs.
International Co-ordinating Director and John Burton
Chairman
About
Chris founded Meridian Prime in 2005 to help people and organisations navigate complex change. As an organisational consultant, executive coach and facilitator, she has spent much of her career working internationally with leaders, boards and stakeholders to unlock potential, facilitate dialogue and translate insight into meaningful action. Her work has focused particularly on the human dimensions of sustainable development, exploring how people, systems and environments interact and evolve.
She served as Executive Director of the EDGE Certified Foundation, the global certification standard for workplace gender & intersectional equity, and continues to support the organisation as a Strategic Adviser. Earlier in her career Chris was part of the leadership team at the Marine Stewardship Council, where she served as International Policy Director and later Associate Director, contributing to the organisation’s early global growth. She has also served on the Board of WOCAN, supporting women’s leadership and economic empowerment in agriculture and natural resource management, and on the advisory board of Ocean Outcomes, a nonprofit dedicated to sustainable fisheries and thriving coastal communities.
Alongside this work, Chris has a creative practice that serves as another way of exploring and engaging with complexity, transformation and the natural world. Her contemporary fine art reflects a long-standing interest in patterns of change, the relationships between human and ecological systems, and the ways in which meaning emerges through perception and reflection.
Chris continues to work as both consultant and artist. She holds an MSc in People and Organisational Development, a Certificate in Executive Coaching and a postgraduate qualification in Applied Science.
Chris Grieve
Executive Director
Chris is an artist, consultant and researcher whose work explores transformation — in people, organisations and the natural world.
Drawing on a long international career in sustainability, leadership and systems change, her practice reflects a deep interest in patterns, relationships and the ways meaning emerges through perception, reflection and dialogue.
Contact
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