Gregory Cliffe
Meine Atelierforschung umfasst das Konzept der „totalisierten Zeit“ und der Schichtung der Erinnerung. Ich verwende historische Referenzen, um philosophische und ideologische Fäden im Laufe der Zeit hervorzuheben.
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Groupthink is a series of large narrative paintings with oil on canvas. It uses parody as a method to [...]
Groupthink is a series of large narrative paintings with oil on canvas. It uses parody as a method to examine how the need for security, certainty and order in contemporary society affects group dynamics. The artist achieves this by creating illusionary psychological spaces and absurdly theatrical compositions with glazed chiaroscuro and tenebrism.
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Biografie
My early work was strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism, sculptural formalism and performance-installation art. I practiced as a installation and performance artist until the late 80s. This was punctuated by two performances at the Cite Internationale Des Artes, Paris in 1984 courtesy of a AGNSW Moya Dyring Studio residency and an Australia Council travel grant. In the 1990s I began to paint and studied a Master of Arts at The University of Western Sydney from 99-2001. Over 30 years my studio research has evolved to embrace the concept of totalized time and the stratification of memory in my work lends itself to the historical references I use in my paintings, creating a mixture of philosophical and ideological threads through time.
I have always been interested in how social values and cultural history can be transmitted by folk narrative, fables, and absurd “yarns” and what these say about group cohesion, conformity, and shared presumptions. I like to collect a range of humorous stories and anecdotes, images of historical artefacts and documents from which to base subjects for my current fictional/factual narrative paintings.
In the exhibition “Groupthink” at Lost Bear Gallery in September, 2016 I sought to examine the nature of group behaviour across a range of sub-cultures and social environments. The paintings focused on sporting, business, recreational and leisure milieus revealing recent change in cultural and social values, family behaviour and human relationships.
My recent work has been focused on the significance of location, my family history and social history through more traditional genres and techniques such as landscape, still life and portraiture. It is extending the subject matter I have explored with group figurative compositions over the last 20 years into the places associated with the stories I have explored.
My painting technique having evolved from linear expressionist landscape paintings in the 1990’s to montaged compositions of family and social history images. This was previously executed in Alkyd mediums to my more recent traditional solvent-free oil painting processes used by the Baroque masters, C19th Romanticists and Pre-Raphaelites.
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Nationalität:
AUSTRALIEN
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- Gruppen: Zeitgenössische Australische Künstler
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Ausbildung
1999 - 2021
Master of Arts [Contemporary Arts Practice] from Western Sydney University
Sydney,
New South Wales,
Australien
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Erfolge
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2023
Finalist, Salon Des Refusees, The 2024 Lethbridge 20000 Small Art Prize
Brisbane,
Queensland,
Australien
2021
Shortlisted Finalist Maritime Art Prize 2022.
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australien
2013
Finalist, Hawkesbury Art Prize
Freeman's Reach,
NSW,
Australien
2002
Highly Commended, Daffodil Day Art Awards, Cancer Council Art Awards
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australien
2001
Fisher's Ghost Art Awards, Open Section Finalist
Campbelltown, Sydney,
NSW,
Australien
1994
Highly Commended, Blue Mountains Creative Arts Council Annual Award
Wentworth Falls,
NSW,
Australien
Kollektive Ausstellungen
2022
Out Of The Blue At Parliament House With Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network.
Sydney,
NSW,
Australien
2019
Group Show: Bmcan At Gallery 188
Katoomba,
NSW,
Australien
2019
Picturesque: Group Show By Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network.
Blue Mountains,
NSW,
Australien
2018
Group Show: "Offensive Art?" At Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy
Melbourne,
Victoria,
Australien
2018
Highly Commended, Summer Group Shows Bmcan At The Edge Theatre,
Katoomba,
NSW,
Australien
2004
Group Exhibition: Alleyway Arts Inaugural Show,
Springwood,
NSW,
Australien
1994
Group Show: Wentworth Falls School Of Arts Entitled "Wild And Domesticated"
Wentworth Falls,
NSW,
Australien
Publikationen und Presse
Einzelausstellungen
2016
Groupthink, One Artist Show, Lost Bear Gallery,
Katoomba,
NSW,
Australien
2001
Fragmented Values: Compulsive Lives, One Artist Exhibition, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University,
Sydney,
NSW,
Australien
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Finalist, Milburn Art Prize
Brisbane Institute of Art, 41 Grafton Street Windsor QLD 4030.
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Mai
2025
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30
Mai
2025
Hinzugefügt am 01.05.2025
Finalist, St Columba's Art Prize
St Columba's College Gallery, Springwood NSW, Australia.
Freitag
2
Mai
2025
Mittwoch
7
Mai
2025
Hinzugefügt am 26.10.2024
Finalist, The Basil Sellers Art Prize
Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre, Campbell Street, Moruya NSW, Australia
Samstag
7
Dezember
2024
Samstag
1
Februar
2025
Finalist, The 2024 Basil Sellers Art Prize.
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