Dr. Greg Creek
Details
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Department: School of Art
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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greg.creek@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0002-4486-4359
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Greg Creek is a Senior Lecturer and Program Lead, Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art), Hong Kong
Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) BP201 RMIT University
Exhibitions
2024 Paintings. Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne.
2020 Paintings. Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne.
2017 12th-20th Amendments. Sarah Scout Gallery, Melbourne.
2016 6th Party Machine: Dog Whistlers. Kunstraumarcade, Vienna, Austria.
2016 Drawings for Krems. Kunstmeile AIR Studio, Krems, Austria.
2015 Greg Creek: The Desktop Drawings. Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton.
2014 Dog Whistlers & 34 Drawings for Love, Death and Politics. Sarah Scout Presents, Melbourne.
2013 5th Party Machine - Augenblick. RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne.
2013 Ping Pong (with Jorge Julian Aristizabal), RMIT University Design Hub, Melbourne.
2013 ChatterShapes. RMIT University, Melbourne.
2009 Amendments. Sarah Scout, Melbourne.
2008 4th Party Machine - the Internationale. VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
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
2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2022 The Lester / Fini Foundation Artist Prize, Art Gallery of Western Australia
2016 AIR Krems International Residency, Austria.
2015 Drawing Wall Commission. Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, Australia.
2014 VA/CB Australia Council New Work Grant.
2013 Ping Pong Collaboration commission. Cultural Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia 2010
2013 Residency. Nillumbik Shire, Laughing Waters, Victoria, Australia.
2009 Commission & Residency. Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, UK.
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
Academic positions
- Senior Lecturer
- RMIT University
- DSC|School of Art
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2014 – Present
Supervisor projects
- Variation, Movement and Flux: catching rhythm in installation space
- 17 Jan 2023
- Occupational Identities
- 23 Sep 2021
- Among My Souvenirs: The Role of Site, Artefact and Embodiment as Tools of Remembrance in Material and Visual Culture
- 30 Aug 2018
- Home is where the art is: The artist¿s house as a site for hosting participatory artworks
- 1 Aug 2017
- Inhabiting Thresholds: Encounters in Liminality Through Material Sculptural Practice
- 22 Feb 2016
- Unseen Equations: Sculptural Assemblage and Intersecting Topologies
- 22 Feb 2016
- Scribble Me This... Drawing Practice Reimaging Australian Nationalistic Iconography
- 1 Jul 2014
- In Flux: Explorations of material indeterminacy through sculptural practice
- 3 Jan 2014
- Painting as a Marker of Change
- 22 Jul 2013
Teaching interests
Art, learning, teaching, time and space, spatial practice and drawing, political histories and critique, collaborative practices, art learning and teaching
Greg Creek lectures in Drawing in the RMIT School of Art and in the Hong Kong Art School. 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.
Research interests
Visual Arts and Crafts, Art Theory and Criticism
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 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
Contemporary Art, 2D, Art, Time and Space
