Grace Connors

Grace Connors is an artist and curator with varied experience working within the visual arts sector. She has exhibited across Australia since 2016, with her practice predominantly performance based and oriented towards storytelling, kinship and collaboration. She has performed at Hobiennale in 2017 and underwent creative development for new work with APHIDS in 2025. Additionally, she has presented performance lectures at UWA Gender Diversity in Music and Art Conference 2019 and Revelation Film Festival Academic Conference in 2018 with her performance work featured in Frieze Magazine in 2017. Connors has undertaken studio residencies at Midland Junction Arts Centre in 2020, and has been artist in residence at Perth Institute of Contemporary Art in 2019 and 2025.

Her work as a facilitator and community engaged collaborator has been driven by a strong advocacy for supporting rigorous creative work and diverse arts programming. She has facilitated Young Boy Dancing Group as part of their Australian debut Spiraling Tour in 2025, produced and curated exhibitions including Bedforms in 2025 and co-curated the hands should have no peace both as part of Perth Festival in 2021, It has been a long time since this moment for Symbiotica’s Unhallowed Arts Festival in 2018, and Light As A Feather at Hobart’s inaugural Hobiennale in 2017. 

Based in Boorloo/Perth Grace is presently co-founder and chairperson of the artist run initiative Cool Change, and previously cco-director at Moana Project Space and volunteer at Success Arts.