GRACE DEWAR

Grace Dewar is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and producer interested in the social, curatorial and material potentials of public space. Her practice explores everyday materials and environments to disrupt dominant narratives about value. These investigations take the form of site-specific installation, collaboration, social practice and urban foraging.

Situated across exhibition-making, public art and collaborative projects, Dewar’s work as a curator and producer favours a DIY approach to creating and disseminating art. Her background in artist-run-initiatives, studio practice and festivals has directly informed her interests in supporting the ambitions of artists, working with communities and developing transformative, contemporary art experiences.

 She was previously Co-Director of First Coat Studios, Toowoomba (2013-19) and First Coat International Art Festival (2014-17); and Co-Curator of Analogue Gallery, Brisbane (2016-2018). She completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Spatial Construction) at the University of Southern Queensland in 2012. Since 2014 she has developed numerous public art projects including collaborations with Horizon Festival, Sunshine Coast QLD; Banna Lane Festival, Griffith NSW; Sea Walls Festival, Cairns QLD; and Brisbane Canvas, Brisbane QLD.

Her recent curatorial projects include ‘Post Premises’ with Laurie Oxenford (2019), a survey into Toowoomba’s iconic Metropole Hotel; ‘A Social Object.’ (2018), an interdisciplinary collaboration exploring the artist collective as a shared resource; and ‘A Tropical State’ with Ashleigh Campbell (2018), a 100 artist touring exhibition interrogating notions of nostalgia and place.