BIO

Grace Dewar is an Australian interdisciplinary artist and creative producer living on Mitakoodi and Mayi Country in remote Northwest Queensland. They work across installation, performance, sound and video, using everyday materials and social encounters to understand, misunderstand and make meaning. With resourcefulness, hospitality and humour, their work brings people together to build collective methods, working from the belief that care, community and making do are a critical necessity for living through accelerating ecological collapse.

Their practice is shaped by long-term collaboration, including as part of public art collective PUBLIC PALACE, performance art band Dolphin Milk and sound collective Noise Xhurxh. They have performed and presented work nationally at the Institute of Modern Art, Museum of Old and New Art, Cementa, Tropical Fruits, Floating Land Biennial and Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, and have taken part in development programs with Situate Arts in Festivals, Platform Arts, Horizon Festival and Splendour in the Grass.

Grace has 15 years’ experience in the arts sector across artist-run organisations, festivals, institutions, peak bodies and local government, alongside self-organised practice. They currently work with Topology across projects, touring and community development. In 2025, they collaborated with Laurie Oxenford and Merinda Davies on softwash, a live and experimental art program by the Tweed River supported by Creative Australia. Recent roles include Regional Arts Advisor, RASN Regional Arts Service Network (2026), Project Manager, Arts Northern Rivers (2022–25), Board Member, Elevator ARI (2022–25) and Senior Arts and Culture Officer, City of Gold Coast (2020–21).

Always was and always will be, Aboriginal land. [-o-]