About

Grace Summers is a 20-year-old emerging artist living in Glengarry, Lutruwita (Tasmania).

She has been lucky to have known from a young age that art was always going to be a lifelong joy and career path, and has been actively working towards that since the beginning of her educational journey. Currently studying for a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a major in Photography, her practice is deeply anchored in a continuous journey of self‑discovery, shaped by an ongoing exploration of selfhood and the relationships formed through unique encounters with nature, place, and culture. Drawing inspiration from Celtic folklore and the mythic traditions of Scottish and Irish cultures, she engages with ancestral narratives as a way of reconnecting with heritage, symbolism, and embodied memory.

Grace views the (Fine) Arts as something that people should embrace and experience; she does this through her active role as the Fine Arts Student Ambassador for UTAS Launceston, where she attends school open days and events to bring the (Fine) Arts to the forefront of academics. 

In her most recent project, Tethered once, now torn (2025), Grace explores her deep contemplation of her Scottish and Irish heritage and the Australian landscape that raised her. The work explores tension between memory and identity, permanence and fragility. Through the process of cyanotype photography, imprinting onto glass, she seeks to reconnect with ancestral rhythms and honour the spiritual continuity of place and lineage.

“I view all of my artworks as an exploration of self articulated through poetic expression, shaped by encounters I’ve had both physically and mentally”