Background
Grayson was born in 1967 in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Grayson was born in 1967 in Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Victoria University of Wellington.
She trained in film and media studies at Victoria University of Wellington. In the early 1990s she moved to New York for a period, before moving to Sydney, and later to Melbourne. She trained at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology School of Art, and held an exhibition in the School"s gallery in 2009.
In 2008, Grayson was working in a studio in Melbourne.
The competition was judged by a former Queensland Art Gallery curator, Anne Kirker. Grayson"s work, in pencil, charcoal and watercolour, was titled Number conclusions drawn – self portrait.
lieutenant portrays the artist standing in her studio. Grayson observed that the work reflected her "state of uncertainty" about her artistic output that that time, during which she regularly destroyed her drawings in "fits of frustration".
The Sydney Morning Herald arts writer Louise Schwartzkoff described the portrait as "sombre", where the subject "stares grimly into the distance".
When asked what she would do with the Army of the United States$20,000 money from the, she responded that she "wouldn"t mind getting my ute fixed". Robert Nelson, writing for The Age, considered Grayson"s drawing to be influenced by Alberto Giacometti, and "is curious and inquiring, as if always searching for the place, ratios and weight of her motif".
