Virginia Grayson (born 1967), also known as Ginny Grayson, is a New Zealand-born Australian artist, and winner of the
Dobell Prize
The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance ...
for Drawing.
Biography
Grayson was born in 1967 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. She trained in film and media studies at
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
The university is well know ...
. In the early 1990s she moved to New York for a period, before moving to Sydney, and later to Melbourne.
She trained at the
RMIT School of Art
The RMIT School of Art is an Australian university art school located in Melbourne, Victoria, which is responsible for undergraduate and postgraduate education and research in fine art and photography at RMIT University. Established in 1917, i ...
, and held an exhibition in the School's gallery in 2009.
In 2008, Grayson was working in a studio in Melbourne. In September that year, it was announced that she had won that year's
Dobell Prize
The Dobell Drawing Prize is a biennial drawing prize and exhibition, held by the National Art School in association with the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation.The prize is an open call to all artists and aims to explore the enduring importance ...
for Drawing, displayed at the
Art Gallery of New South Wales
The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), founded as the New South Wales Academy of Art in 1872 and known as the National Art Gallery of New South Wales between 1883 and 1958, is located in The Domain, Sydney, Australia. It is the most importa ...
, in a competition that had 586 entries.
The competition was judged by a former
Queensland Art Gallery
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The Queensland Art Gallery ...
curator, Anne Kirker.
[
Grayson's work, in pencil, charcoal and watercolour, was titled ''No conclusions drawn – self portrait''.][ The '']Sydney Morning Herald
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'' arts writer Louise Schwartzkoff described the portrait as "sombre", where the subject "stares grimly into the distance".ute
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fixed".The Age
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'', considered Grayson's drawing to be influenced by Alberto Giacometti
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, and "is curious and inquiring, as if always searching for the place, ratios and weight of her motif".
References
External links
Picture of the artist with her Dobell Prize-winning drawing
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2011.
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1967 births
People from Palmerston North
New Zealand artists
Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Living people
People educated at Nga Tawa Diocesan School