19/05/2026
The ANU School of Art & Design are pleased to announce Holly Grace as the recipient of the 2026 Christine and Stephen Procter Fellowship.
Selected from a field of national applicants, Grace’s proposal is to create artwork in glass that envisions the role of humanity within the environment both as its protector and destroyer. It will include periods of making in Australia and Denmark, informed by research and engagement with indigenous knowledge holders both here and in the far north of Sweden.
Holly is an internationally recognised artist whose work uses glass as a three-dimensional canvas for imagery, video and sound projection. Walking across remote sections of the Australian landscape is central to her practice, during which she records lifeforms that exist within its topography, both human and non-human. It is her goal to “find my identity and culture through place and environment, discovering where I belong within a fragile landscape and transcend my role from interloper to kinship.”
Holly's residency in the Glass Workshop starts in Semester 2, and she will give a public talk in our SOAD seminar series later this year.
images:
1-2. “Clearing” 2026, blown sheet glass and hot sculpture glass handles with video projection and sound, overall dimensions ofnGlass, L130cm x H30cm x D3cm. Exhibited with Sharing Stories Arts Exchange, SOAD Gallery, February 2026.
3-4. “A Lost Song II” 2022, 27p set, overall dimensions L250cm x H120cm x D7cm. Blown glass with glass powder, gold lustres and metal leaf surfaces and sandblasted imagery
5. Holly Grace visiting the ANU Glass Workshop, February 2026.
6. "Resonant Landscape" distant, 2024, blown glass with video projection, overall dimensions L70cm x H35cm x D45cm
