Siv Grava body of work

Moran Portrait Prize winning artist Siv Grava Over the past twenty-eight years, Siv Grava has divided her time between Community Cultural Development and studio based art practice. Her achievements include:

Awards & prizes

2004 – 6 Two year CCD Fellowship, Australia Council
2003 – SA Advertiser Critics Award
2002 – Port Pirie Prize
2000 – Bishop De Campo Inaugural Award
1998 – Central Eyre Peninsula Prize
1995 – Whyalla Art Prize – People’s Choice
1992 – Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1980 – Victorian College of the Arts Painting Prize

Selected Major Exhibitions

2009 – Untitled, Art Images, Adelaide
2006 – Untitled, Anne Harari Art, Melbourne
2005 – Untitled, Art Images, Adelaide
2003 – Untitled, Art Images, Adelaide
2002 – Drawn to the Edge – A Retrospective, Port Pirie Regional Gallery
2001 – Untitled, Art Images, Adelaide

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010 – Vanuatu – Moulin Rougue Gallery, Kapunda
2008 – Terra Spiritalis – Murray Bridge Regional Gallery
2007 – Thinking in Three Dimensions – Riddoch Regional Gallery, Mt Gambier
2006 – The French Connection – Bella Cosa Gallery – Fleurieu Biennale
2006 – Visions – Port Pirie Regional Gallery
2004 – Doug Moran Portrait Prize – State Library, Sydney, National travelling
2004-7 – Waterhouse – SA Museum, Adelaide
2002-3 – Hearsay – Adelaide Fringe Festival
2002-4 – Sculpture on the Cliffs – Elliston.SA
2003 – From the Winds – Newlands Gallery, Port Adelaide
2000-02 – Di Antara Dua Pedalman / Between Remote Regions - SA Regional tour, Adelaide, National Gallery of Malaysia and five regional galleries, Malaysia

Collections

Tweed River Gallery; State Bank of South Australia; Country Arts SA, Adelaide; Port Pirie City Council; Elliston District Council; Whyalla City Council; Diocese of Port Pirie.

Numerous private collections and portrait commissions Australia, Sweden and Unites States of America.

Related professional activity

2007 – COMMISSIONED SCULPTURE – Mt Gambier City Council, Limestone Symposium.
2006 – REGIONAL ARTS SUMMIT, Parliament House, Canberra
2005 – KEYNOTE SPEAKER – State Regional Arts Conference, Riverland, SA
2002-6 – Coordinated ‘SCULPTURE ON THE CLIFFS’ Arts Festival, Elliston, SA
1997 – SA REPRESENTATIVE Community Cultural Development, Australia Council Sydney
1994 – Curator, STATE OF THE ART / ART OF THE STATE; State touring exhibition

Community Cultural Development Projects

Since 1983 Siv Grava has been involved in numerous CCD projects in Victoria, SA and NT, including:

2003-2004 – Hearsay Project – Baxter Detention Centre, SA
2003- 2004 – Cross Cultural Collaborations Project – Ceduna & Elliston, SA
1997 – Warumungu Interpretative Centre, Nyinka Nyu Nyu mural,Julalikari Council, Tennant Creek, NT. Working with the Warumungu people over three months to design a culturally sensitive mural for their Interpretative Centre around a sacred site

List of CCD projects in Vic, SA & NT

2009 – Marree and Copley – Flinders Ranges Indigenous murals project
2009 – Port Augusta Re-imagines – indigenous exhibition project
2007 – Copley and Neppabunna – Flinders Ranges indigenous murals project
2007 – Mentored indigenous artist, Beaver Lennon
2002-6 – Co-ordinated Sculpture on the Cliffs Arts Festival.
2004

Hearsay Project – Baxter Detention Centre, SA
Cross Cultural Collaborations Project – Ceduna & Elliston, SA
Tennant Creek Historical mural, NT / High School Mural, Tennant Creek, NT
Aboriginal Women’s Centre mural, Elliot, NT

2003

Tumby Bay – environmental signage project , SA
Streaky Bay – Come Out Festival, SA

2002 – Kapunda, SA – Mural:Signage: Banners project, SA
2001

Arno Bay mural project, SA / Kimba Agricultural Show Mural, SA
Rotunda Arts Society mural project, Tumby Bay, SA

2000

Centennial of Federation Mural, Cleve, SA
Tall Ships of Wallaroo Mural, SA

1999

Bond Street Medical Centre Mural, Ringwood VIC
Pitjat jant jara Lands Fregon, – Womens Centre Mural, SA
Meningie Community Hospital Mural SA / Wallaroo community Mural, SA

1998 – Pitjat jant jara Lands – Murals/ workshops, Fregon and Nyapari, SA
1997

Warumungu Interpretive Centre, Nyinka Nyu Nyu mural, Tennant Creek, NT
Port Augusta TAFE day care centre mural, SA
Drinkwise mural, Tennant Creek Hospital, NT
Reconciliation Mural, Port Augusta, SA
Port Augusta Gaol mural project, SA
Railway station redevelopment project, History of Port Augusta Mural, SA

1996

Pitjat jant jarra Lands, Women’s Centre mural, Ernabella, SA
Wudinna Community Mural, SA / Streaky Bay Area School Mural, SA
Silk painting workshop, TAFE Leigh Creek, SA

1995

Solomontown Beach redevelopment project, – Story of Port Pirie mosaic, SA
Historical mural project Elliston, SA / TAFE Mural, Coober Pedy, SA
Community and schools murals project, Lock, SA
Silk hanging commission- indigenous artists, SA
LEAP Art Training program, Tennant Creek / CDEP mural, Ali Curung, NT
Historical Mural Project, Murray Bridge, SA
Banners and murals, CDEP, Julalikari Council, Tennant Creek, NT

1993

Serpent project – Enviromental multi-media arts project in 12 outback towns
CDEP mural training project, Tennant Creek, NT

1992

Agricultural Hall Mural, Elliston SA
Mosaic stobie poles project, Port Lincoln

1991 – Youth arts mural, Whyalla, SA
1991

Marree Hotel, Historical Mural, SA
Hawker community murals project, SA

1990

Coober Pedy TAFE mural, SA / Gladstone Mobile Library mural, SA
Aboriginal drug and alcohol rehabilitation mural, Baroota, SA
Davenport Aboriginal community murals, Port Augusta, SA
Tji Tji Wiltja mural, Port Augusta, SA

1989 – Augusta Park High school mural, SA
1988 – Oakleighleigh Railway Station Arts Project – youth : elderly citizens, VIC
1987 – Altona Civic Centre Mural, VIC
1987 – Multicultural Family Life Mural Project – Oakleigh, VIC
1987 – Youth Employment and Support Scheme, Nunawacting VIC
1986

Market Pylons Muralsls Project, Dandenong, VIC
Diamond Creek Technical School, Artist in Schools Program, VIC

1985 – Artist in Schools Program, Nunawading High School, VIC
1984 – Footscrays City Council, Town Hall Mural, Vic
1984 – Peoples History of Footscray Mural – Footscray Community Arts Centre, VIC