Greg Johns

View Greg’s recent exhibition Catalogue here

My exhibition at & Gallery Australia includes current work, and selected past pivotal works that reflect core concerns that have shaped my body of work for close to 50 years of full time practice.

The sacred and the Australian landscape remain core areas of interest to me. In the early nineties I began to make sculpture which was influenced by both the forms and a symbolic/felt reading of our landscape. My previous work was international in style. There has been very little sculpture made in Australia which can be called Australian sculpture; John Davis did produce a body of work made from found organic material collected at specific sites in our landscape. There are also the wonderful Pukamani poles carved in the Tiwi Islands, traditionally as burial poles, which have a sculptural quality.  Contemporary versions and are now exhibited in the Western art world as sculpture which broadly expresses Tiwi culture.

I am interested in both the forms of our continent, and a deep subterranean/symbolic response to our extraordinary and timeless landscape. As such I hope that a contribution has been made to the unfolding/evolving story of a sculptural sensibility, which can be referred to as Australian sculpture, and at the same time reaches out/connects to universal/timeless sensibilities.

Greg Johns is Exhibiting at & Gallery Courtesy of Australia Galleries