Siv Grava | |
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Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Artist |
Awards | Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (1992) |
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. [1]
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. [2]
Her works are held in the collections of the Australian Catholic University (Andamooka triptych), [3] and the Tweed Regional Gallery (Self Portrait). [4]
Grava's work has been exhibited at the Flinders University Museum of Art (Tough(er) Love: Art From Eyre Peninsula, group). [5]
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