Chiranjika (Chira) Grasby is a Tattooist, emerging visual artist, and emerging curator. They began exhibiting work and cheating on a freelance basis whilst studying a Bachelor of Visual Art at Adelaide Central School of Art – completed 2019. Since graduating they have presented their first solo exhibition (En)Titled at Urban Cow Studios, co-founded local Zine initiative Index Adelaide, have been preparing for this first interstate exhibition to be held at Brunswick Street Gallery, and opened Halfpace – the first QPOC (Queer & Person(s) of Colour) Tattoo Studio on Kaurna Land.
Their involvement in these varying career outlets find common ground through their lived experience as a queer mixed race artist, and they hold a consistent drive to create platforms for other marginalised artists in the community. Connecting with their identity as a mixed race diaspora, and connecting with others that have similar lived experience, has been a driving force behind many of their projects. It’s their hope that ultimately their career serves as a catalyst for conversation and togetherness, to provide a sense of community and to forge a mutually beneficial support system within the POC population of our arts industry.