Poppy van Oorde Grainger, artist

Poppy graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Curtin University in 2002. In the same year she became the youngest winner of the National Fremantle Print Award. Since then, Poppy has been working as a community-based artist in the UK and Australia. Her work involves collaborating with a diverse range of communities, using materials and experiences from their lives to inspire and create contemporary artworks. Her preferred mediums are installation, print, sculpture, video, photography, animation, drawing and painting. These community-based projects have been presented at the Perth International Arts Festival, London International Festival of Theatre, Artrage Festival and AWESOME Children’s Festival. In addition to festivals, Poppy has worked as an artist-in-residence for Disabilities and the Arts, Disadvantaged and the Arts, Emergency Exit Arts and numerous schools, youth centres and communities.

I dreamt I surrendered in a pretend war where everybody else died work is one of six stereoscopes that were made for In the Blink of a Night, a community art project where six young photographers (Hannah Brown, Lucette Combo-Matsiona, Adhya Putri, Tim Green, Ella Moore and Phebe Shields) worked with artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and photographer Michael Ellis to capture images of their dreams. This project took place over ten workshops at YMCA Youth Headquarters Skate Park and was sponsored by Healthway.