ABOUT GRACE THRESHER
ABOUT GRACE THRESHER
Grace Thresher is an artist and exhibitions coordinator, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts - Elam University of Auckland, 2014. Currently living and working in Auckland, New Zealand.
Work available at The Mandarin Tree, Gordonton
Art Practice
Grace works with a variety of media including painting, drawing, ceramics, mixed media print and collage. Her creative inspiration comes from nature and her aim with each piece is to bring out the precision, detail and layers she sees, encouraging the observer to similarly lose themselves in the viewing experience.
Through her work, Grace aims to express the movement and feeling of nature’s ever evolving, breathing, changing splendour. Bringing particular attention to the details, intricacies and textures within natural forms. Grace’s practice is driven by a love of line and colour, in aquatic and terrestrial life. Beginning with an idea, Grace may jot down a rough sketch, take a photograph or manipulate multiple images, sample a print or cut out images to create a collage as the initial conceptual draft. Often the final piece will have taken on a life of its own and its origination in that initial conception will be as an indistinct memory long before charted.
Exhibitions
Beneath the Surface - Lake House Arts Centre. Coordinator and participant, 2021
Corban Estate Arts Centre Awards, 2022
Open Table Café, 2019 - 2024
6° of Separation - Upstairs Gallery. Group, 2021
Focus - Upstairs Gallery, Solo, 2022
Shore - Franklin Arts Centre, Group with Port Waikato artists, 2023
Art at the Port - Port Waikato. Group/market, 2022 - 2023
Open Studio Art Trail - Port Waikato. Coordinator and artist, 2021 - 2023
Affordable Art Exhibition, Our Aotearoa and Get Fired - Kumeu Arts. Group, 2023 - 2024
Work Experience
Arts Programmer - Auckland Council, 2024
Social Media Coordinator - The Poi Room, 2022
Social Media and Communications Coordinator - Waipā District Council, 2021 - 2022
Marketing Coordinator - Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tāmaki, 2021
Facility Coordinator - Te Oro, 2021
Gallery Coordinator - Māngere Arts Centre Ngā Tohu o Uenuku, 2020 - 2021
Co-founder - Circle Gallery & Studio, Newmarket, Station Square, 2015
Visual Merchandiser - Country Road, 2016