[7] Born in Leeds, Yorkshire, Groobey was educated at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford[7][8] receiving a BFA degree in 2000.

She then studied at the Royal College of Art in London, receiving an MA degree in 2010.

[9][10] Groobey exhibited in Newspeak: British Art Now Part 2 at the Saatchi Gallery in 2010,[11] the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2011 at the ICA, in London[3] and Surrreal at König Galerie, Berlin.

[15][5] Groobey's work has been written about in publications and essays including The Brooklyn Rail, NYC, by Alfred Mac Adam, 2017.

[16] The Daiwa Foundation Art Prize catalogue essay by Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, 2018.