Naomi Kim Grant
Painting
Naomi is a contemporary Indigenous Australian artist. She was born in Sydney, resided in Perth for 43 years, but has now relocated to Stanthorpe. Since 2000, she has won over 20 awards, including the Inaugural Hawkesbury Art Award. Her work is represented in many private and government collections and galleries in Australia and overseas. She graduated with a textile design degree in 1980 and has had a successful career as an artist, designer, and art teacher spanning the past 44 years.
Naomi is a visual master painter, distilling the essence of the land and the moment in the mind’s eye. With her background in textile design, she often captures the beauty, pattern, and colour of the environment. Her art practice portrays the land and water in various forms, from dreams and memories to realism and abstraction.
In the last 20 years, Naomi’s focus has been on acrylics and collage, developing a technique of layering coloured tissue paper under and over the painted surface. This gives the surface a three-dimensional, textural quality, and she often paints with paper.