About the Artist
Grace Harper is an abstract painter based in Adelaide, Australia. Her work explores the shifting relationship between internal states and the natural world, examining how atmosphere, rhythm, and time move through both landscape and body.
Working through layered gesture and repetition, she builds surfaces that hold and release tension. Marks accumulate, dissolve, and return, tracing patterns that feel both intimate and expansive, like weather systems or thought forms in motion.
At the centre of her practice is the idea that the boundaries between inner and outer worlds are porous. The same forces that shape sky and tide, pressure, rhythm and atmosphere shape us too.
Her work has been exhibited in Australia and continues to develop through her studio practice and international residencies.
Residencies
2025, SOMOS, Berlin
Exhibitions
2023, GATHER TOGETHER, Group Exhibition, Tasmania
2023, EPHEMERAL, Solo Exhibition, Adelaide
2022, FOR THE DECKADE, Group Exhibition, Melbourne
2020, THE HERO’S JOURNEY, Group Exhibition, Canberra
2019, “WE GET IT, YOU’RE MOVING TO MELBOURNE”, Group Exhibition, Adelaide
Artist CV
2011 - 2014, BACHELOR OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION, University of South Australia
2010, CREATIVE DUX, Lourdes Hill College, Brisbane