Greg Jorgenson

“I aim to create a sense of place, and rich, colourful statements of felt experience”
Greg was born in 1952 in Melbourne and studied Archaeology, Philosophy, History and Mathematics at Melbourne University as well as Painting, Drawing, Sculpture and Art Philosophy/History at Melbourne State College.

1972         Commenced teaching secondary school (Art)
1980-98    Numerous exhibitions including sculpture at Melbourne University Gallery
1980         Art Study Tour Europe
1981         Six week Art Study Tour Nepal
1982-83   Ran own Art Gallery
1991         Worked as a book designer and illustrator
1993         Provided numerous illustrations for Australian Wildlife Association
                  Conducted Workshops at Meat Market for Calligraphy Society of Victoria
1994         Provided numerous illustrations for Oxford World Reference Illustrated Encyclopaedia
1995         Art Scholarship to China (Studies in Neolithic Art)
                  First Major Exhibition at Delshan Art Gallery, Melbourne
                                       
ARTISTS STATEMENT

I focus on strength in design and colour in design and colour. These paintings of gorges, gullies, hillsides and abandoned farms are rich visual metaphors of the human experience of searching and meaning. I have travelled extensively and am attracted to land features that suggest confrontation, change and adaption.
I paint the stillness and quiet of the Australian bush and seek metaphors in landscapes for human experience. Sometimes the landscapes are restructured. Different perspectives and spatial relationships are at the service of harmony and design. Some of the art uses elements of synthetic cubism. Landscape is built up from components. Dimension is accentuated through colour. By the use of contradiction and juxtaposition, meaning is gradually etched into the canvas. From the paintings, emerge contradictions of chaos and order, space and contraction, dynamism and stillness.