Richard Gregory
Visual Artist
My practice is built around drawing, installation, and digital work, supported by printmaking and photography. I use landscape and objects as materials to frame questions of the human condition – memory, identity, and origin are currently in focus. I make discoveries through walking, cycling and loitering. I observe both the obvious and what’s happening around the edges. I document through photography, list-making and visceral memory (the feeling of a place and time is critical). Drawing plays two roles in my practice. I use it to record and develop ideas through working drawings and exploratory sketches. It’s part of a studio-focused methodology for creating end-works that possess a bird’s-eye view, map-like quality or a skewed sense of perspective. I work with simple, readily available materials, found objects, and indigenous matter in my installation projects. • Group shows, events: 2025-26: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and tour, shortlist and catalogue; 2025: Droves & Downs Bursary and Exhibition, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset; In Our Nature, Fine Foundation Gallery, Swanage, Dorset; On Close Inspection, twenty3 art collective, Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Dorset; The Slade Centre Biennial Open Print Exhibition; 2024-25: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and tour, shortlist and catalogue; 2024: Spud Open – Hold On, Let Go, SpudWORKS, Hampshire; New Forest National Park Authority Artist Residency 2024-5 – Shortlisted; Convergence, twenty3 art collective, Fine Foundation Gallery, Swanage, Dorset; 2023: Spud Open – Digital Dreaming, SpudWORKS, Hampshire; Overall Winner; MA Fine Art Graduating Show, AUB; MA Fine Art Inter-Institutional Symposium 2023, ARU Cambridge (speaker); 2022: Spud Open – Our Changing Landscape, SpudWORKS, Hampshire; Interwoven, residency and pop-up exhibition, SpudWORKS, Hampshire; Oscillate, BUMF Gallery, AUB; Zoetropic Animation Symposium, AUB; Paper Rock Scissors, pop-up exhibition, SpudWORKS, Hampshire • Memberships, collaborations: 2023- twenty3 art collective; 2023- Arts University Bournemouth Drawing Research Group; 2006- A-N The Artists Information Company • Other work: 1992-2020 Independent creative director in graphic design and typography; 1992-2001 Sessional Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication, Surrey Institute of Art and Design • Education: 2021-23 The Graduate School, Arts University Bournemouth: MA Fine Art; 1972-76 Epsom School of Art & Design: Communication Design; Foundation Studies
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- Website: richardgregory.art