Genevieve Grieves is a proud Worimi woman and respected artist, educator, field builder, film director and oral historian. She is internationally recognised as a leader of community engagement and decolonising methodologies. Key to her practice is collaboration with Indigenous peoples and communities to create authentic and dynamic outcomes. Genevieve started her career as an Oral Historian — developing skills in consultation, collaboration and Deep Listening — skills that have since been central to her work. She holds a strong leadership role in the arts and cultural sector, contributing to the development of key organisations and also mentoring many emerging Indigenous creatives.  Genevieve was the lead curator of the Melbourne Museum’s First Peoples exhibition, an exhibition viewed as best practice — nationally and internationally - in community engagement. First Peoples is a dynamic experience for audiences, a space rich in story, culture and first person voice, that engenders great pride for Koorie people and communities, and that has won multiple national and international awards.

Genevieve’s commitment to social change is underpinned by her work as co-founder of Shifting Ground, supporting organisations and individuals to be empowered to think, talk and act on issues of culture and race through workshops and training. It is also exemplified in the “Working in First Peoples Contexts” course she teaches at RMIT University.

Co-Creator and Creative Director of GARUWA, Genevieve champions projects that place First Nations knowledge and culture at the core. Central to her practice is intercultural and intergenerational knowledge transmission, in which she builds bridges between disparate communities and paves the way for future generations of First Nations storytellers, developing initiatives like the annual First Nations Impact Lab, co-presented with Doc Society.