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Liz Gridley is a realist oil paint artist based in Naarm (Melbourne). Gridley's oil paintings have historically centred on her experiences of states of hyper-emotion where distress arises from overstimulation. The personal inevitability of death & death care is a point in which dialogue can be culturally celebrated or silenced. Gridley’s works make room for this conversation that is often pushed aside as taboo, as Death is a meeting point of permitted human emotion across social divisions.

Through contemporary figurative and still life paintings Gridley reflects her internal states & research to connect viscerally with the viewer and add volume to narratives around death care and contemporary technologies that are overlooked or brushed aside.

In 2025 Gridley was a finalist in the Pallative Care Australia's 'Live well, Die well' Art prize. Gridley recently won the Featured artist award in the “Victorian Artists Society Coterie” by the Hansen Little Foundation. and was a finalist in the Lester Portrait Prize in WA.