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Virginia Grayson

b. 1967

New Zealand artist (born 1967)

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About Virginia Grayson

Born 1967. Virginia Grayson is a New Zealand artist.

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. She trained at the RMIT School of Art, and held an exhibition in the School's gallery in 2009.

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. The competition was judged by a former Queensland Art Gallery curator, Anne Kirker. 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". 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".

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Important facts

Birth century
Occupation
Nationality
Education
Victoria University of Wellington
Employers
RMIT School of Art
Awards
Dobell Drawing Prize; Dobell Prize
Also known as
Ginny Grayson

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Virginia Grayson's

Frequently asked questions

Who is Virginia Grayson?

New Zealand artist (born 1967)

When was Virginia Grayson born?

Virginia Grayson was born on 27 May 1967 in Palmerston North.

What is Virginia Grayson's occupation?

Virginia Grayson is an artist.

What nationality is Virginia Grayson?

Virginia Grayson is New Zealand.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Virginia Grayson

· Wikidata: Q17198170

· DBpedia: Virginia Grayson

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