LIBERTÉ GRACE

Liberté Grace (b. 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker born in Australia and currently living and working in Sydney and the US, working in the media of film/video, installation and photography. Her works have been exhibited in cultural institutions in Australia, Italy and France. Grace has received multiple awards in Australia and the US including the Sutton Commercial Galleries Award, the Chroma Australia Award (Gallery NSW) and the Lloyd Reeds Youth Memorial Art Award Commendation, Brett Ratner Scholarship (NY) for film direction as well as winning the top graduate prize at V.C.A, The Wallara Traveling Scholarship and the Churchie National Emerging Art Prize. In 2014, Grace was selected as part of the top 25 video artists world-wide by the international panel of the inaugural Arte Laguna Art Prize, held at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy and exhibited images from her film The Perfect Boy Myth video series in Time Square, New York. Her art practice centralizes on the premise of identity as creation, through transformation via new consciousness perspectives. Grace believes that all realities are the outer fantasy of the inner world and consciousness of each individual. Her works depict challenging belief systems reconstructed as fantasy worlds, distilling repetitive historical patterns of behavior into simple re-played narratives. Grace is an auteur filmmaker and contemporary artist who has screened at the Cannes Film Festival. This will be her first exhibition at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney.