GREG CREEK |
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EDUCATION |
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2006-current |
PhD, RMIT University, Melbourne. |
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1996-94 |
Masters of Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. |
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1989-88 |
Graduate Diploma in Fine Art, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. |
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1981-79 |
Diploma of Art & Design, Victoria College, Prahran Campus, Melbourne. |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
Amendments, Sarah Scout, Melbourne. |
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2008 |
4th Party Machine – the Internationale. VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne |
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2007 |
3rd Party Machine – Higgins, Conical, Melbourne. |
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Manifesto Drawings: Representatives, Ocular Lab, Melbourne. |
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2006 |
Photoworks, Catherine Manuell Design, Melbourne. |
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2nd Party Machine, Latrobe University Visual Art Space, Bendigo. |
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1st Party Machine, Catherine Manuell Design, Melbourne. |
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3rd Person Collaboration: Carolyn Eskdale & Greg Creek, RMIT Project Space & RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne. |
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2003 |
The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming, ACCA, Melbourne. |
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2000 |
Slow Homecoming (Return of Democracy), St.Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne. |
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Paris Desktop Drawing, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney University, N.S.W. & Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT. |
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1999 |
Paris Desktop Drawing, Temple Studio, Melbourne & Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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1997 |
Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland. |
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Desktop Drawing, Pendulum, Sydney. |
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1996 |
slow homecoming, Temple Studio, Melbourne. |
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1994 |
Burial in Bendigo, Temple Studio, Melbourne. |
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1993 |
ART + TEXT..., Temple Studio, Melbourne. |
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1991 |
Paintings/Parable of the Blind, Judith Pugh Gallery, Melbourne. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2009 |
The Enlightenments, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. |
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2008 |
Rembrandt’s: 9 Installations, Rembrandt’s Function Centre Site, Knox City, Melbourne. |
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Drawn Encounters, Gallery at Wimbledon, Wimbledon College of Art, London, UK. |
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The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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Attrium, RMIT University Project Space, Melbourne & St.Paul Street, Auckland, NZ. |
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World’s End, Carlton Hotel & Studios, Melbourne |
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2007 |
Sculpture, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne. |
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2006 |
Allegory,Parody and Montage, Ord Minnett Gallery, Melbourne. |
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Doug Moran National Portrait Prize2006, State Library of NSW, Sydney. |
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Leverage, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne. |
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2005 |
The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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Savage Club Invitation Art Prize, Savage Club, Melbourne. |
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Arthur Guy Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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Take a Good Look, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW. |
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2004 |
The Kedumba Drawing Award Exhibition, Kedumba Gallery, Leura, NSW. |
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The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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The Spirit of Football, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melbourne. |
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Strike A Pose, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, NSW. |
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Imaging the Apple, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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2003 |
Arthur Guy Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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2002 |
Memo, Memorial Hall, St.Kilda, Melbourne. |
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Doug Moran National Portrait Prize 2006, State Library of NSW, Sydney. |
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The Robert Jacks Drawing Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria. |
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Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong. |
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Heat, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD. |
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2001 |
The Kedumba Drawing Award Exhibition, Kedumba Gallery, Leura, NSW. |
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Federation Festival Australia Projects, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. |
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Parliament Desktop Drawings. Victorian State Parliament House, Melbourne. |
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A Studio in Paris – Australian Artists at the Cité 1967-2000, S.H.Ervin Gallery,Sydney. |
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The Male Nude, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne. |
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2000 |
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. |
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Art and Land: Contemporary Australian Visions, Chiang Mai Contemporary Art Gallery, Thailand; Silpakorn University Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Vientiane, Laos; Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Phillipines; Earle Lu Gallery La Salle, Singapore. |
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Hard Candy, Project Space Rebecca, London, U.K. |
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1999 |
1999 National Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria. |
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1998 |
Drawing, Linden Gallery, Melbourne. |
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All This and Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. |
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1997 |
Geelong Contemporary Art Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong. |
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Castlemaine Art Gallery, Castlemaine. |
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Trinity College Collection, Melbourne University Gallery, Melbourne. |
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Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. |
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1996 |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize1996, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (and touring). |
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How Say You?, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (and touring). |
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1995 |
12th Biennial of Drawing, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria. |
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A Gathering of Shades; Recent Images of Death in Melbourne (curator), Temple Studio, Melbourne. |
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New Acquisitions, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo. |
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Tricks, Stop 22, Melbourne. |
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1994 |
Lineage, Linden Gallery, Melbourne. |
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Generic People, The Basement Project, Melbourne. |
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An Archaeology Around Greville Street (curator), Temple Studio, Melbourne. |
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1992 |
Re-view, Gore Street Gallery, Melbourne. |
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1990 |
witness, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne (touring). |
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1989 |
re:Creation/Re-creation, Monash University Gallery, Melbourne. |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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Art Bank, Bendigo Art Gallery, City of Port Phillip Collection, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Royal Women’s Hospital, Tweed Valley Regional Art Gallery, University of Melbourne Collection, Trinity College Collection. |
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AWARDS, COMMMISSIONS, RESIDENCIES |
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2009 |
Commission. Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, UK. |
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2008 |
Residency, Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, UK. |
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ACCA on the Menu Commission. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. |
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2006 |
Australian Post-Graduate Award Research Scholarship. |
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City of Melbourne Art Project Grant. |
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2005 |
The Melbourne Savage Club Painting Prize |
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2004 |
Portrait commission. Woodside Energy Ltd., Perth. |
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Portrait commission. Melbourne University. |
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National Gallery of Victoria, Spirit of Football Community Award |
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2003 |
Melbourne Commission. Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. |
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2002 |
Residency. Open Bench Program, Craft Victoria, Melbourne. |
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2001 |
Residency. VA/CB Australia Council London Studio. |
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Arts Victoria Arts Development Grant |
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Reasearch Grant. Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne. |
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1998 |
Residency. Sydney University Power Studio, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. |
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1997 |
City of Port Phillip Mural Commission. St.Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne. |
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Portrait commission. Melbourne University. |
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1996 |
VA/CB Australia Council Project Grant. |
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1996 |
Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. |
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VA/CB Australia Council Artists-Run Initiatives Project Grant. |
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1994 |
Melbourne University Post-Graduate Research Scholarship. |
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1993 |
VA/CB Australia Council Artists-Run Initiatives Project Grant. |
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Portrait commission. Melbourne University. |
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1992 |
VA/CB Australia Council Project Grant. |
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Residency. Oncology Unit, Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne. |
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1991 |
A. M. E. Bale Travelling Scholarship Award. |
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1990 |
Margaret Stewart Endowment Commission. National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. |
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1989 |
Trustees of the National Gallery of Victoria, Dora Wilson Award for Painting. |
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1985 |
Residency. Bendigo College of Advanced Education. Bendigo, Victoria. |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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on the artist |
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2008 |
Mark McDean, ‘Greg Creek – Manifesto Drawing’, Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne. |
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2006 |
‘Carolyn Eskdale & Greg Creek, 3rd Person Collaboration’, RMIT University, Melbourne. |
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2004 |
Spirit of Football. Slattery Publishing, Melbourne. |
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2003 |
Alison Barclay, ‘You’re up the creek’, Herald-Sun, 17 September 2003, Melbourne |
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Jeff Makin, ‘Every picture tells a story’, Herald-Sun, 8 September 2003, Melbourne. |
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Robert Nelson, ‘Creek Defaults to Brown’, The Age, 20 August 2003, Melbourne |
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Julie Copland, The Maker: Greg Creek, ABC Radio National, 31 August 2003, Melbourne |
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Gabriella Coslovich, Thinking Man’s Art, The Age 23 August 2003, Melbounre. |
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Chris Boyd, ‘The Allegorical Imperative’, Financial Review, 2 August 2003, Sydney. |
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Margaret Plant, ‘Between Seeing and Weeping: Greg Creek’s Utopian Allegories’, and Juliana Engberg, ‘History, Heresey, Hearsay: Greg Creek’s Melbourne Desktop Drawing’, The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. |
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2001 |
Ella Barclay, A Studio in Paris, ArtLink, Vol 21 no 3 |
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2001 |
Harriet Edquist, ‘Violence of Appearances Suite’ (catalogue essay), The Australia Projects, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne. |
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2000 |
Blair French, ‘Paris Desktop Drawing’, e-Globe, December 2000. |
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2000 |
Tom Nicholson, ‘Afterword’, Paris Desktop Drawing, CCAS and Power Publications, Canberra. |
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2000 |
Tim Sowden, ‘Foreward,’ Paris Desktop Drawing, CCAS and Power Publications, Canberra. |
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1998 |
Michael Bullock, ‘Desktop Drawings’, (catalogue essay), All this and Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. |
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1997 |
Bruce James, The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 April 1997. |
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1996 |
Michael Bullock, ‘Slow Homecoming,’ Temple Studio Publication #17, October 1996. |
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Robert Rooney, The Australian, 4 October 1996. |
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Robert Rooney, ‘1996 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize’, The Australian, 27 September 1996. |
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Robert Rooney, ‘How Say You?’, The Australian, 12 April 1996. |
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1995 |
Pia Ednie-Brown, ‘Artist-run spaces in Melbourne’ (interview), Artbeat RTR FM Perth, April 1995. |
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1994 |
Robert Nelson, ‘Speaking a language more familiar’, The Age, 9 November 1994. |
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Marie Sierra-Hughes, ‘Timeless Burial’, Herald-Sun, 2 November 1994. |
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Kevin Murray, ‘A splendid time is guaranteed for all’, Lineage (catalogue), Linden Gallery, Melbourne, October 1994. |
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Tricia OHeare, ‘Burial in Bendigo’, ARTFAN 3, 1994. |
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David Sequira, ‘Burial in Bendigo’, Club Tractor, Melbourne, May 1994. |
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1993 |
Rod McLeish, ‘ART+ TEXT... Greg Creek’, Temple Studio Publication #2, September 1993. |
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1992 |
Cynthia Holland, ‘Greg Creek Portraits,’ Royal Womens Hospital, Melbourne, July 1992. |
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Robert Rooney, ‘Reductive geometry in many colourful guises’, The Australian, 4 July 1992. |
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Christopher Heathcote, ‘A show at the cutting edge’, The Age, 1 July 1992. |
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Mary-Lou Jelbart, ‘Sightings’, (interview). ABC National Radio 3AR, March 1992. |
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1991 |
Kevin Murray, ‘Science of Melbourne’, Otis Rush, 6 July 1991. |
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1990 |
Kevin Murray, ‘witness’, (catalogue), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, July 1990. |
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1989 |
Robert Rooney, ‘Original copies a recreational re-creation’, The Australian, 4 November 1989. |
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Merryn Gates, ‘re:Creation/Re-creation’, (catalogue), Monash University, Melbourne, October 1989. |
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Robert Rooney, ‘Venerable school may merge into art background’, The Australian, 27 October 1989. |
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by the artist |
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2008 |
‘When Seeing Matters’, The International Journal of the Arts in Society, Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne. |
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2006 |
‘Here, There and Everywhere: Notes on the International Virtual Studio Project,’ RMIT Post Graduate Publication, RMIT UnIversity, Melbourne. |
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2004 |
‘Carolyn Eskdale’, On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney. |
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1997 |
‘Memoirs of an Illusionary Room’, Temple Studio Publication #18, Melbourne, February 1997. |
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1995 |
‘White Cube Black Hole’, Temple Studio Publication #12, Melbourne, May 1995. |
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‘The artist becomes a machine’,Temple Studio Publication #10, Melbourne, May 1995. |
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1994 |
‘Autonomy from What?’, Temple Studio Publication #8, Melbourne, November 1994. |
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‘The Road to Paris’, Temple Studio Publication #7, Melbourne, September 1994. |
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‘Artist-run Publications: Speaking in Tongues,’ Temple Studio Publication #4, Melbourne, March 1994. |
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1993 |
‘You Cant Always Get What You Want: Artist-run galleries in Melbourne’, Temple Studio Publication #1, Melbourne, July 1993. |
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1991 |
‘Proving a point, on Rod McLeish’ (catalogue essay), Judith Pugh Gallery, July 1991. |