Richard Gregory is a visual artist whose practice encompasses drawing, installation, photography, digital and audio-visual work, printmaking and painting. His art reflects on the precariousness and absurdities of contemporary living and its systems, straddling realms of nature and the human-made environment.

 

Richard’s work stems from an outsider perspective, exploring the geography, industry, and human relationships within spaces and systems. Walking, cycling and loitering are primary modes of discovery, documenting surroundings firstly through photography and visceral memory. Drawing plays a dual role in his practice: recording and developing ideas – working drawings, if you will – and as part of a studio-focused methodology for creating end-works, often with an aerial-view, map-like quality.

 

Monotony and repetition are recurring themes in his key pieces, referencing the power of ritual in performative and graphic works, one-offs and series. His work sometimes fixates on formal geometries, manifested in landwork, sculpture and digital drawing, raising questions about identity and origin.​