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Gracie Edwards (b.1995) is an Australian visual artist based in Melbourne whose practice stretches across painting and photography. Edwards graduated from RMIT University in 2017 with a Bachelors of Fine Art (with Distinction).

Inspired by the unconventional beauty of the banal, Edwards’ art explores the relationships between various artistic elements, usually focusing heavily on colour and composition play.

Edwards’ abstract painting practice investigates visual elements, such as using bold expressionist colour and geometry as compositional strategies while her photographic practice investigates the same themes with an emphasis on the subtle and subdued urban street imagery.

Edwards’ landscape painting has recently evolved from her abstract practice and continues to use loud colours, loose brushwork, and layering to convey an almost surreal landscape.

Predominately working with oils and photography independently, Edwards studies the languages and translations of abstraction and uses her methodologies as a platform to start a dialogue between the conception of chance and intention within her work.