Originally from Ōkakea West Melton, Grace Ryder is a curator currently based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, where she is a curator at The Dowse Art Museum. She graduated with a BFA (hons) in film and sculpture from Ilam School of Fine Arts, University of Canterbury in 2015.

From January 2017-2020 she was Director of Blue Oyster Art Project Space Te Tio Kikorangi in Ōtepoti Dunedin, where among extensive programming and professional development opportunities, she co-convened Extended Conversations, a year-long online publishing platform and mentoring programme for emerging art critics and writers, with Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.

Prior to this she co-founded and co-directed North Projects, an artist-run initiative in Ōtautahi Christchurch which operated out of a former dwelling from 2014-2016 and was the Gallery Coordinator at CoCA Toi Moroki in 2016.

Grace joins us this morning to talk about From the Ground Up: Community, Cultivation and Commensality an exhibition on at the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt that focuses on the relationship people have with food production and consumption.