{{short description|Irish visual artist}} {{Distinguish|Grace Weir Hammerstein}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=May 2025}} '''Grace Weir''' (fl. 1990's – present) is an Irish sculptor and interdisciplinary artist from Dublin.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grace Weir |url=https://imma.ie/artists/grace-weir/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=IMMA |language=en-IE |archive-date=24 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250424135227/https://imma.ie/artists/grace-weir/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She is a member of Aosdána.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Grace Weir - Current Member |url=http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Weir.aspx |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707210640/http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/Weir.aspx |archive-date=7 July 2018 |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=aosdana.artscouncil.ie |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> She created "Wavelength", the winners' trophy for the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/4261/084.html |title=Eurovision Song Contest trophy (1994) |date=1994 |last=Harding |first=Peter |type=Photograph |access-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026193649/https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/4261/084.html |archive-date=26 October 2023 |url-status=live |via=RTÉ Libraries and Archives}}</ref>
She represented Ireland at the Biennale in 2001,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Szeemann |first=Harald |author-link=Harald Szeemann |date=June 2001 |title=La 49e biennale de venise: Plateau of Mankind. |url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/504948043 |journal=Art-Press |issn=0245-5676 |access-date=13 May 2025 |number=269 |pages=20–57}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cotter |first=Lucy |year=2005 |title=Globalisation + Irish Art = ? |journal=Third Text |volume=19 |doi=10.1080/09528820412331318523 |number=1 |pages=15–26}}</ref> and was featured as ''The Guardian''{{'}}s "artist of the week" in April 2009.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lack |first=Jessica |date=2009-04-29 |title=Artist of the week 39: Grace Weir |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/apr/29/grace-weir-own-time |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=The Guardian |language=en-GB}}</ref>
Her sculpture, ''Trace'', outside St. Stephen's Green stood for 25 years until 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Cónal |date=2017-11-22 |title=At Stephen's Green, a Sculpture Gone for Good |url=https://www.dublininquirer.com/at-stephen-s-green-a-sculpture-gone-for-good/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Dublin InQuirer |language=en}}</ref> She has also created films such as "A Reflection on Light" in 2016 for Trinity College and "Time Tries All Things" in 2019 for the Institute of Physics.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gilchrist |first=Kylie |date=2017-10-30 |title=Grace Weir |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/grace-weir-235860/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=Artforum |language=en-US |archive-date=25 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240925173631/https://www.artforum.com/events/grace-weir-235860/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dublin |first=Trinity College |title=Artist Grace Weir concludes Trinity Creative Challenge Showcase |url=https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/artist-grace-weir-concludes-trinity-creative-challenge-showcase/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=TCD.ie |language=en |archive-date=12 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250612011756/https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/artist-grace-weir-concludes-trinity-creative-challenge-showcase/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 21, 2019 |title=Grace Weir: Time Tries All Things - e-flux Education |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/244131/grace-weirtime-tries-all-things/ |access-date=2025-05-13 |website=e-flux |language=en |archive-date=12 June 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250612011835/https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/244131/grace-weirtime-tries-all-things/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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