about Grace …
Grace Gladdish is an artist living in Tasmania who’s work relies heavily on printmaking processes. Grace studied art in Brisbane in the nineties, and her early practice was based there. A move to turrakana/Tasman Peninsula in 2009 to run a native flower farm, saw a major shift in focus as the landscape took over as her inspiration. Her paintings from this period, the ‘Sight Seeing’ series, saw her shortlisted for the Tidal Devonport art award.
Creating linocuts is a many staged process and this has given Grace time to fit her art making around the responsibilities she has as a Carer. Leaving the flower farm behind, a move to the foothills of kunanyi in Hobart gave Grace the freedom to hone her skills and find a new focus . Now a full-time artist, she has developed a unique style of hand painted linocuts that are richly coloured and full of detailed observances of the wild landscape around her. She is particularly inspired by the alpine regions of Tasmania.
Grace’s skills are recognised by the wider printmaking community. She has been included in national group exhibitions, runs regular workshops for Hunter Island Press, and was featured in French arts magazine ‘Pratique des Arts’. She also regularly exhibits with the ‘nowhereprint’ collective, a group of Tasmanian printmakers who make work about their island home.
More recently, Grace has begun to cut and tear her linocuts, re-fitting them into collages that become new imagined landscapes. The act of tearing up her work has released a new creativity, ‘drawing’ with the found lines within the original linocuts and finding ways that they serendipitously connect, as if the landscape is dictating the journey that the lines travel. These collages give scope to explore not just the landscape itself, but the artist’s connections to it and relationship with it.
Grace regularly exhibits across her home state and nationally. Her work received the Highly Commended award at the Bay of Fires Art Prize 2024 and was shortlisted for the 2024 National Contemporary Art Prize in Canberra, and the Burnie Prink Prize 2025. She holds an Honours Degree in Visual Arts from QUT in Brisbane.
Contact Grace gracegladdish@live.com
