Currently based in Adelaide, Grace grew up in Brisbane before moving to South Australia to study a Bachelor of Visual Communication. Her early years were shaped by sunny days outside, riding bikes, wandering through mangroves and staring up at the sky. Nature was like a friend: a quiet companion that offered space to think, feel, and simply be. That connection now weaves through her work.

Her latest series, The Gardener, explores the unseen work of tending to one's inner world. Rooted in the language of landscape but freed from its literal form, these paintings unfold through intuitive gesture, layered texture, and moments of surrender. Rather than depicting a scene, Grace invites the viewer into a mood, a hum beneath the surface and a softness blooming through tension.

Drawing inspiration from artists like Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Ben Quilty, Grace’s work sits within a lineage of gestural abstraction and poetic expressionism. Her surfaces are built up and broken down, shaped as much by instinct as by restraint. Each piece becomes a meditation on care, growth, and the quiet transformation that occurs when we choose to tend—gently, deliberately—to what lies within.