Grace Connors (WA): is an artist, performer and curator living in Boorloo (Perth) with varied experience working within the visual arts sector. She has exhibited across Australia since 201 and her practice is predominantly performance based, and oriented towards storytelling, kinship and collaboration. Drawing from post humanist studies to look critically toward systems of control, our relationships to technology and to each other. She undertook a studio residency at Midland Junction Arts Centre in late 2020, and was artist in residence at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in 2019 to develop her ongoing performance series Running on the Smell of an Oily Rag.
Her work as a facilitator and community engaged collaborator has been driven by a strong advocacy for supporting rigorous creative work and diverse arts programming. She has produced and curated exhibitions for festivals including Bedforms and the hands should have no peace as part of Perth Festival in 2025 and 2021, It has been a long time since this moment for Symbiotica’s Unhallowed Arts Festival in 2018, and Light As A Feather at Hobart’s inaugural Hobiennale in 2017. Grace is presently co-founder and Chairperson of the artist run initiative Cool Change, and has previously worked as Exhibitions Manager at Moana Project Space and volunteer at Success Arts. Additionally, she has presented papers at UWA Gender Diversity in Music and Art Conference 2019 and Revelation Film Festival Academic Conference in 2018 and had her performance work featured in Frieze Magazine in 2017.
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