Larissa Gray (Australia 1976 -) is a mixed media, multi-disciplinary artist living and working on the land of the Taungurung people in the Macedon Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
A storyteller through three-dimensional, small scale bronze and mixed media sculptures and monochrome pencil drawings.
Growing up in a semi-rural area of Sydney, NSW surrounded by bush-land, from a very early age all she ever wanted to do was to make art.
At the age of 16, she left school to study a Diploma of Fine Art at the National Art School in East Sydney, graduating in 1996 at age 21. In the years after graduating, she spent time travelling overseas and around Australia, living like a tumbleweed and eventually fell into a career with animals (her second love)
In 2015 she put down roots in the regional town of Kyneton, Victoria where she began to focus on her artistic career professionally.
A selected finalist in many art awards and prizes throughout Australia she has received awards, grants and commendations including but not limited to:
Participant | Affordable Art Fair | Melbourne & Sydney | Highlands Artists Collective | 2024.
Winner | Yarra Valley Arts Sculpture Award | Yering Station Sculpture Exhibition & Awards | 2023.
Winner of the People’s Choice Award and Highly commended | Newstead Arts Hub, It’s a Small World Sculpture Prize | 2023.
Winner | Tokai cultural exchange grant | Macedon Ranges Shire Council | 2019. As a result of this grant I created a unique cast bronze triptych that are now on permanent display in the Tokai Cultural Arts Centre, Japan.
Winner | Ron Anstley Big Hearted Award | LOT 19 Spring Sculpture Prize | 2019
Her work belongs in many private collections around the world.
