Siv Grava

{{short description|Australian artist (born 1954)}}

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|name=Siv Grava

|birth_date={{birth year and age|1954}}

|nationality=Australian

|occupation=Artist

|awards=Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (1992)

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Siv Grava (born 1954), who lives in Elliston, South Australia, is an Australian artist.

Grava won the 1992 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for Self Portrait.{{cite web |url=https://aumuseums.com/nsw/richmond-tweed/tweed-river-art-gallery |title=Tweed Art Gallery: Items - Painting, Self Portrait |website=aumuseums.com |publisher=Australian Museums and Galleries |accessdate=31 March 2022}}

In 2004 Grava was awarded the Graham F Smith Peace Foundation Peace Award for an Artist in Residence for Hearsay Art Project with John Turpie, an art installation at the Baxter Detention Centre, working with asylum seekers.{{Cite web |title=Past Recipients |url=https://artspeacefoundation.org/grants-awards/arts-peace-award/past-recipients/ |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=Graham F. Smith Peace Foundation |language=en-AU}}

Collections

Her works are held in the collections of the Australian Catholic University (Andamooka triptych),{{cite web |url=https://ehive.com/collections/7316/objects/966485/andamooka-triptych |title=Andamooka triptych; Siv Grava, Australian, Born 1954; 2007/2008; 1.4-1.4.MEL |website= |publisher=ehive.com |accessdate=31 March 2022}} and the Tweed Regional Gallery (Self Portrait).{{cite web |url=https://aumuseums.com/nsw/richmond-tweed/tweed-river-art-gallery |title=Tweed Art Gallery: Items - Painting, Self Portrait |website=aumuseums.com |publisher=Australian Museums and Galleries |accessdate=31 March 2022}}

Exhibitions

Grava's work has been exhibited at the Flinders University Museum of Art (Tough(er) Love: Art From Eyre Peninsula, group).{{cite book |url=https://www.countryarts.org.au/app/uploads/2012/01/TougherLove_ResourceKit2013.pdf |title=Tough(er) Love: Art From Eyre Peninsula - Resource Kit |pages= |author=John Neylon |year=2015 |publisher=Country Arts SA |accessdate=31 March 2022}}

References