BIO

Grace Dewar (b. 1990) is an Australian interdisciplinary artist and culture producer living on Widjabul Wia-bal Country, Lismore. Their practice-led research uses collaboration, installation, public art, performance, sound and video. They work with everyday materials and temporary processes to re-assemble and re-organise 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—to find alternative ways of living and being in the world. Their speculative and site-specific approach holds space for improvisation, resourcefulness, risk-taking, 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 15 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. They were recently successful in Creative Australia funding to realise softwash—an artist-led program of site-responsive live art with Merinda Davies and Laurie Oxenford. They are a Board Member and studio artist with Elevator ARI, Lismore.

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