Transfigure – 2.5m

Greg Johns,
prominent Australian sculptor

The Australian landscape is a major influence on my sculpture. It is not however the only influence; over the last 50 years of practice, a layering of ideas has gradually unfolded and evolved. These conceptual notions are now well rooted in this landscape. Greg Johns – Sculptor

Greg Johns  has completed significant commissions throughout Australia, as well as in Singapore, Spain, New Zealand, Korea, England and Ireland. Since 1990 the main focus of his practise has been to develop an approach to making sculpture which is both conceptually and materially ‘Australian’ in feel, with forms that emerge from both a visual and a ‘felt’ reading of the Australian landscape. “As a sculptor working in this great landscape, I remain perplexed by how little sculpture produced in Australia reflects this place,” he says. “We are perhaps locked into our cities and computers; as well as being overloaded by the international”.

Greg Johns,
prominent Australian sculptor

The Australian landscape is a major influence on my sculpture. It is not however the only influence; over the last 50 years of practice, a layering of ideas has gradually unfolded and evolved. These conceptual notions are now well rooted in this landscape. Greg Johns – Sculptor

Greg Johns  has completed significant commissions throughout Australia, as well as in Singapore, Spain, New Zealand, Korea, England and Ireland. Since 1990 the main focus of his practise has been to develop an approach to making sculpture which is both conceptually and materially ‘Australian’ in feel, with forms that emerge from both a visual and a ‘felt’ reading of the Australian landscape. “As a sculptor working in this great landscape, I remain perplexed by how little sculpture produced in Australia reflects this place,” he says. “We are perhaps locked into our cities and computers; as well as being overloaded by the international”.