Dr Greg Creek

Research

Greg Creek’s MFA thesis – “Speaking Space: Artist-run Spaces in Melbourne”, examined relations between artist, viewer, studio and community with a focus upon Artist-run-initiative’s manifestos.

His current Ph.D research - Manifesto Drawing; cartooning, political cynicism, art, examines relations between art and Australian political cartooning with particular emphasis upon graphic language and the sitting of political critique. Other areas of interest include collaboration in education, translation between object and image, form and information in space, figuration & anatomy and parallel media.

School of Art Research Cluster

Art, Time and Space

Research Supervision

Naomi Williamson, MA, Second Supervisor, “The Drawn Subject: Meaning in the Moving Drawing.”

Katie Lee, MA, Second Supervisor, “Coercive environments: exploring the psychological effects of rationalising systems.”

Mary Peacock, MA, Second Supervisor, “Under the Bitumen the River: Translating the imagination.”

Greg Creek lectures in Sculpture in the RMIT School of Art and is coordinator of the MFA Advanced Seminar Program. His work represents a political perspective on the contest of personal and public histories using narrative, allegory and satire in large painting and drawing projects.

Currently Pursuing Ph.D; MFA; Grad. Dip. (Fine Art); Dip. (Art & Design)

Exhibitions

2006   Photoworks. Catherine Manuell Design Space, Melbourne.
2006   2nd Party Machine. Latrobe University Visual Art Centre, Bendigo.
2006   1st Party Machine. Catherine Manuell Design Space, Melbourne.
2006   Doug Moran National Portrait Prize. State Library of New South Wales (selected artist).
2006   Leverage. RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2006   3rd Person Collaboration (with Carolyn Eskdale). RMIT Project Space & School of Art Gallery, Melbourne.2003 - The Allegorical Imperative: Greg Creek’s Slow Homecoming, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
2001–2002   Art & Land: Contemporary Australian Visions, various venues, Thailand, Phillipines, Singapore, Vietnam
2001   Violence of Appearances, Federation Festival Australia Projects, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2001   Parliament Desktop Drawings, State Parliament House, Melbourne
2000   Paris Desktop Drawing, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
1998   All This and Heaven Too, Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Adelaide

Presentations

2006   Artist’s Talk. Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, 23 August, 2006.
2006   Artist’s Talk. Latrobe University, Bendigo Campus, Bendigo, 31 May, 2006.
2006   Invited Speaker, Hatched ’06 Symposium. Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, 13 May, 2006

Awards and Comissions

2006   City of Melbourne Arts Grant
2001   Residency in London, VACB studio
2001   Arts Victoria Professional Development Grant
1991–2000   Co-founded and coordinated Temple Studio, an artist-run gallery, studio and publishing initiative.
1999   City of Port Phillip Mural Commission
1998   Residency in and Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts
1996   Australia Council Grant
1996   The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize
1992   Australia Council Grant
1991   AME Bale Traveling Scholarship award