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Grace Thomson (pronouns they/them) is a curator (b. 1992) from Melbourne, Australia and has been living in Glasgow, Scotland since 2017. Grace completed a Bachelors of Fine Art at Monash University and is currently undertaking a Masters of Letters of Curatorial Practice in Contemporary Art at the Glasgow School of Art. Grace's curatorial practice involves activism, community-engagement, walking techniques, and teaching. Grace has exhibited in Melbourne and Glasgow. In 2014, Grace was elected the Chairperson of Runt/Link Gallery, a student-run public gallery at Monash University Caulfield Campus. In 2019, Grace was elected Student Representative of GSA's MLitt Curatorial Practices in Contemporary Art, during the time the Pause or Pay campaign emerged as a result of student dissatisfaction with UK higher education in regards to UCU Strikes and COVID-19 lockdown. Grace works as Coach and arts administrator in Glasgow.

Emergent Walking Strategy
Grace's curatorial project, emergent walking strategy, focuses on exploring land ownership in Scotland in the context of neoliberal capitalism. The title is inspired by adrienne maree brown's book, Emergent Strategy. Emergent Walking Strategy involves community-based participatory walking as a tool to mobilise embodied engagement of geopolitical contexts from a grass-roots level to function in opposition to current systems of authority of urban spaces and land ownership.

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