Website: www.gregsomerville.com.au
Email: performingdesign3@gmail.com
Having graduated with a degree in Ecology and Molecular Genetics in 1976, and having worked as a Herbarium Assistant and ecologist at the Botanic Gardens in Sydney, and a Technical Officer at a Visual Art School, the imagery of scientific investigation is integral to my art practice.
My readings from the realms of religion, physics, biology and ecology and many years of keen observation of my local bioregion, have all contributed to an aesthetic investigation that dwells upon underlying patterns and relationships inherent in this part of the world: the patterns of water drops on leaves, the way lichen spreads on sandstone or the manner in which trees co-inhabit the landscape.
Techniques I use in my work are: printmaking (screenprint, woodblock, digital, monoprint collagraph), collage, painting, quilting, stitching, leading to more sculptural forms. Much of my work is textile based, drawing upon my photographic and drawing practice.
Borderlands No 14
Retail Price: A$3000
Dimensions: 74 x 120cm (H x W)
Statement: In the Borderlands series,”I use various design devices to interconnect entities, that at first glance might seem discrete. This piece uses vibrational patterns, similar to what you might see on the surface of water in a rain shower or even in wood grain around a branching in the tree.
Exhibitions: Connections 2023 – Falkner Gallery. Castlemaine
Indra’s Net no.63
Retail Price: NFS
Dimensions: 87 x 150cm (H x W)
Statement: This quilted work originated as a drawing in pen and pencil enlarged and printed on cotton.
Exhibitions: “…stitched to everything…” – musings of an errant ecologist
Longing for the Centre
Retail Price: A$3000
Dimensions: 156 x 156cm (H x W)
Statement: Venturing back to where I began my artistic life forty years ago, the Centre series references mandala designs. Longing for the Centre (2023), the largest, is inspired by patterns of energy flow and interrelationship of form as seen in the microscopic worlds of cell structure, and in the landscape.
Exhibitions: Golden Textures 2023 – Contemporary Art Quilts. Central Goldfields Art Gallery
Towards a Climax Community
Retail Price: A$2000
Dimensions: 80cm x 69cm x 6cm (H x W)
Statement: Digital print of a drawing on cotton, quilting. The latest in a series of quilts moulded with aluminium strips.
Exhibitions: Connections 2023 – Falkner Gallery. Castlemaine
