About the artist
Greg Wood is an Australian landscape artist who has been actively painting since the mid-90s. Wood's work has been included in several important Australian award exhibitions including the John Glover Prize, Tattersalls Prize, Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale Art Prize, Kate Derum Award and most recently was the 2022 winner of the John Leslie Art Prize.
During a recent residency in Queenstown, a former mining town on the West coast of Tasmania, Wood observed and created a series of works that he describes as ‘resurrection landscapes,' or images of places previously altered by human activity and now in the process of regeneration. He describes these landscapes as occupying a liminal space between the abstraction and realism of his own style. These works visualize the physical abstraction wrought by human intervention and the shifting forces of the environment's atmosphere and the capacity of nature to heal and remodel itself. To Wood, the act of painting these wounded landscapes is a practice of restitution and contrition.
Wood’s paintings are psychologically and visually alluring. The more we look, the more we are invited to come into communion with how place shapes us, how we can dwell in landscapes both literal and interior.
