Grace Harper is an abstract painter based in Adelaide, Australia. Originally from Melbourne, Grace grew up in Brisbane and studied a Bachelor of Visual Communication before pursuing painting as her primary practice. Her work has been exhibited in Australia and will expand internationally with an upcoming residency in Berlin.

Her current series, Conversations, explores the interplay between gesture, mark, and dialogue. Each canvas becomes a site where tensions unfold, between control and release, silence and expression, intimacy and distance. The marks interact as if in conversation, echoing the dynamics that exist both within the work itself and between artwork and viewer.

Influenced by Cy Twombly and Joan Mitchell, Grace’s practice embraces layered surfaces, gestural intensity, and the space between deliberate and intuitive mark-making. Through this, her paintings invite reflection on the ways communication — spoken or unspoken — shapes our relationships, our bodies, and our inner worlds.