BIO

Grace Dewar (b. 1990) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist, curator and producer living on Widjabul Wia-bal Country of the Bundjalung nation, Lismore NSW. Their research-led practice is situated in collaboration, installation, public art, performance, sound and video. They use everyday materials and temporary processes to re-work, re-organise and re-assemble what already exists, attempting new ways to understand and misunderstand our surroundings. This way of working acknowledges the transformation of material and place as constantly becoming, offering new value, meaning and utility. Their speculative and site-specific approach holds space for improvisation, resourcefulness, interaction and impermanence as an urgent response to ecocide and the critical necessity of community. They collaborate as part of public art collective, PUBLIC PALACE; performance art band, Dolphin Milk; and sound collective, Noise Xhurch.

Grace has 13 years of experience in the arts sector across artist-run organisations, institutions, peak bodies, local government and self-organised practice. They currently work as Project Manager for Arts Northern Rivers; motivated to support the ambitions of regional artists and communities post-disaster. They were recently successful in Creative Australia funding to realise softwash, a peripatetic artist-run initiative with Merinda Davies and Laurie Oxenford. They are a Board Member and studio artist with Elevator ARI, Lismore.

I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which I live and practice. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be, Aboriginal land. [-o-]