Richard Grigg is a contemporary Australian artist based in Melbourne who fashions diverse sculptures using box-card. He also makes tempera paintings and drawings that are inspired by anonymous craftsmen and extinct cultures. He combines these sources with daily events, nature journals, history books, comic strips and pulp papers to create contemporary art forms. Richard has shown extensively in a solo and group format in Melbourne’s artist run spaces as well as art institutions since graduating from the Victorian College of the Arts (Drawing) in 1995. He also completed a three month residency in Mino, Japan in 2007.

He is represented by Block Projects, Melbourne.

Education

1995-1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Drawing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.

Solo exhibitions

2009            new work, Block Projects, Melbourne, Australia.

2007            love you love me, Canberra Contempoary Art Space, Canberra, Australia.

2006            Life after life, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia.

2005            Soften the glare, Kings Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2003            Paperbaby, West Space Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2002            New Work, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2001            Roads to Here, TCB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia. 

Memories of Australia, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

                   Odd Drawings, Studio 106, Melbourne, Australia.

2000            Recent Works, Moulden Arts Project, Darwin, Australia.

1999            Underfoot, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Group Exhibitions

2009            Palimpsest: Old Wentworth Gaol Project, Old Wentworth Gaol, NSW, Australia

                   Victory Over the Sun, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne, Australia.

2008            The Aliens Can Smell Our Blood, Block Projects, Melbourne, Australia.           

                   Where in the woods?, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

                   Bloodlines, Albury Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia.

                   Bloodlines, Tamworth Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia.

                   Bloodlines, Musselbrook Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia.

                   Bloodlines, Western Plains Cultural Centre, NSW, Australia.

                   Bloodlines, Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia.

2007            Mino Paper Art Project, Mino Washi Art Museum, Mino, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

                   Bloodlines, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW, Australia.

                   Zonal Marx, VCA Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

                   Utopian Visions and the Slump of Paradise, Block Projects, Melbourne, Australia.

2006            Half Finish World, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2005            A Portable Model of, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Tasmania, Australia.

2004            Address Book, Bus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

                   Third History, TCB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

                   Specimen, Botanic Gardens Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2003            Royal Rumble, Kings Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

2002            Works on Paper, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Melbourne, Australia.

                   Slide, 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne, Australia.

 2001            La Trobe Acquisitive Prize, Bundoora Homestead, Melbourne, Australia.

Residencies

2007            Mino Paper Art Village Project, Mino, Gifu prefecture, Japan.

Collections

Artbank 2009

Bibliography

2005            Ford, Juan ‘Soften the Glare’  UN. MAGAZINE , issue five 2005, p.38

2004            Bate, Fiona ‘Third History’ UN. MAGAZINE, issue one 2004, p.19                                    

2001            Timms, Peter ‘Longing for home inspires artwork’ THE AGE, 09\06\2001, p.22