Dexter Rosengrave is an artist, creative producer, arts facilitator and consultant based in Nipaluna/Hobart.

Dexter’s career began in the fine arts, where they cultivated a dynamic practice using performance, painting, video, and sound to explore personal challenges related to their shadows, desires and queer transgender identity. Through their work, Dexter embraced the creative space as a site for agitation, growth, and self-reflection, harnessing the creative process as a catalyst for profound personal transformation. They graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (1st Class) from the University of Tasmania in 2018 and received the Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency in Paris the same year. Dexter also developed their project Body as an Archive: Tracking the Transgender Experience in Tasmania with an ANZ & Sydney Mardi Gras Community Grant. In 2019, they won the Midsumma and Australia Post Art Award for their video work, The After-Image, and have exhibited nationally and internationally across galleries, fairs, and festivals.

Under the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) umbrella, Dexter held various roles, including Artist Assistant for Mike Parr (2019), Producer for Faux Mo at MONA FOMA (2022), and Curator and Senior Producer for Dark Mofo’s 10th-anniversary program (2023). During this time, they specialised in large-scale installations and performances, collaborating with renowned artists such as Marina Abramović, Bill Viola, Cassils, United Visual Artists, Florentina Holzinger and more.

Having leveraged the creative process for therapeutic gains in their own art practice and recently earning a Graduate Diploma in Creative Arts Therapies from Murdoch University, Dexter now applies their artistic and academic expertise to therapeutic and community contexts. As a Creative Arts Worker with Pulse Youth Health, they facilitate playful, inclusive programs for at-risk young people, promoting emotional regulation, self-awareness, and resilience. Dexter is particularly interested in supporting individuals to use metaphor and the personification of images to nurture secure attachment styles, fostering connection and healing relationships within and beyond the therapeutic space.

This transition from fine arts to community-based work reflects Dexter’s commitment to social impact through creativity. Their values-driven, humanistic, and existential approach is rooted in trauma-informed practice, person-centred support, and the belief that art is a transformative force for personal and community wellbeing.