Virginia Grayson
{{Short description|Australian artist (born 1967)}}
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| birth_date = 1967
| birth_place = Palmerston North, New Zealand
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| field = Drawing
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- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- RMIT School of Art, Melbourne
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| works = No conclusions drawn – self portrait (2008)
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| awards = Dobell Prize (2008)
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Virginia Grayson (born 1967), also known as Ginny Grayson, is a New Zealand-born Australian artist, and winner of the Dobell Prize 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. In the early 1990s she moved to New York for a period, before moving to Sydney, and later to Melbourne.{{cite web|url=http://www.anaaarts.com/?page_id=497|title=Ginny Grayson|date=2013|publisher=AANA Arts|accessdate=12 June 2014}} She trained at the RMIT School of Art, and held an exhibition in the School's gallery in 2009.{{cite web|url=http://schoolofartgalleries.dsc.rmit.edu.au/SOAG/exhibitions/2009/link_ii.html|title=Link II: School of Art Alumni Exhibition|date=April 2009|publisher=RMIT School of Art|accessdate=12 June 2014}}
File:Grayson no conclusions drawn.jpg
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 for Drawing, displayed at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in a competition that had 586 entries.{{cite web|url=http://archive.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/archives_2008/Dobell08_winner/|title=Virginia Grayson Wins 2008 Dobell Prize for Drawing|date=4 September 2008|publisher=Art Gallery of New South Wales|accessdate=12 June 2014}}{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2355411.htm|title=Self portrait does a ute turn|last=O'Brien|first=Joe|date=4 September 2008|work=The World Today|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|accessdate=12 June 2014}} The competition was judged by a former Queensland Art Gallery curator, Anne Kirker.
Grayson's work, in pencil, charcoal and watercolour, was titled No conclusions drawn – self portrait.{{cite news|url=http://artdaily.com/news/25968/Virginia-Grayson-Wins-2008-Dobell-Prize-for-Drawing#.U5kLHHbNleU|title=Virginia Grayson Wins 2008 Dobell Prize for Drawing|work=artdaily.org|accessdate=12 June 2014}} It portrays the artist standing in her studio. Grayson observed that the work reflected her "state of uncertainty" about her artistic output at that time, during which she regularly destroyed her drawings in "fits of frustration". The Sydney Morning Herald arts writer Louise Schwartzkoff described the portrait as "sombre", where the subject "stares grimly into the distance".{{cite news|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/erasing-grace-catch-the-winner-while-you-can/2008/09/04/1220121428070.html|title=Erasing grace: catch the winner while you can|last=Schwartzkoff|first=Louise|date=5 September 2008|work=Sydney Morning Herald|accessdate=12 June 2014}} When asked what she would do with the AUS$20,000 money from the Dobell Prize, she responded that she "wouldn't mind getting my ute fixed".
Robert Nelson, writing for The Age, considered Grayson's drawing to be influenced by Alberto Giacometti, and "is curious and inquiring, as if always searching for the place, ratios and weight of her motif".{{cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/thinking-along-similar-lines-20111122-1nsrq.html|title=Thinking along similar lines|last=Nelson|first=Robert|date=23 November 2011|work=The Age|accessdate=12 June 2014}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-09-04/melbourne-artist-virginia-grayson-stands-next-to/499570 Picture of the artist with her Dobell Prize-winning drawing], Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2011.
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Category:People from Palmerston North