Born 1952 Sydney

Academic and Professional Activities:
Current: Lecturer in Art History and Theory and Postgraduate Research Methods, National Art School, Sydney
2004 - 2009: Lecturer in post-grad studies, National Art School, Sydney
1998 - 2004: Lecturer in Painting, Drawing, and Art History and Theory, SA School of Art; AIT Adelaide Arts Centre; and Adelaide Central School of Art
2002: PhD, South Australian School of Art, University of SA
2000: Study Tour of Spain and UK, including 1 month studio residency, Barcelona Institute of Art
1994 - 1997: Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours), SA School of Art
1992 - 1993:ing, Canberra School of Art
1977 - 1991: Self-employed commercial artist, Sydney and Canberra
1970 - 1976: Diploma of Painting, National Art School, Sydney; Fine Arts, University of Sydney, (incomplete). Study Tour of Europe, Asia and North America

The captivating works of Ian Greig are inspired by water. The comtemplative surface of water with it's shifting echoes and traces of a reflected reality offers a rich visual experience of illusion and ambiguity that Ian explores aethetically via the processes of painting. In these meditative studies of nature he responds to the play of light and shadow of the surface of ponds, rivers and streams. These almost opalescent oil paintings have a dream-like essence, with delicate hues, graceful forms and the subtlest of graphic brush-marks conveying a sense of silence, stillness and reverie that moves the mind beyond the world of the commonplace

“My paintings are inspired by the aesthetic contemplation of water, where three visual fields come into play simultaneously - the bottom of the pool, the surface with its leaves and ripples, and the reflections of what exists above. All these combine to create a fascinating interplay of depth, space and ambiguous perspectives that I explore in paintings spanning both the figurative and the abstract. In these works I attempt to reconcile the horizontal and the vertical, the invisable with the visable, and to explore that slippery space between meanings where oppositions and reversals can occur and where fixed categories dissolve. Each new series is an adventure into the ephemeral and the ineffable via the process of painting; an ongoing project in which the outcomes, like the subject of its focus, are in a constant state of flux.”

Greig has held several successful exhibitions throughout Australia, and is represented in corporate and private collections in South Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory.

Artbank
Country Arts SA
Government House South Australia
University of South Australia
Corporate and private collections in Australia, UK, Spain and Canada.

Adam Dutkiewicz, ‘Revealing our urban identity’, The Advertiser, February 13, 1998.
Stateline, ABC TV, February 27, 1998.
Sarah Thomas, ‘Art incentive to see the world’, The Advertiser, February 28, 1998.
Brett Buttfield, ‘Various Artists’, dB Magazine, No. 165, March 1998.
John Neylon, ‘Value Adding’, Adelaide Review, No. 175, April 1998.
Tim Lloyd, ‘State brushes with fame’, The Advertiser, November 17, 1998.
Giles Auty, ‘Beyond Words’, The Weekend Australian, November 21, 1998.
Cath Kenneally, interview, Radio 5UV ‘Arts Breakfast’, September 18, 1999.
Louise Nunn, ‘Talent Reflected’, The Advertiser, September 22, 1999.
Adam Dutkiewicz, ‘Leading shift in concern’, The Advertiser, April 11, 2001.
Ian Greig, ‘Studio Secrets’, Australian Artist, Vol 18, No. 1, July 2001.
David O’Brien, ‘Contemporary Art Centre members show’, dB Magazine, No. 266, January 2002.
Adam Dutkiewicz, ‘Art of science’, The Advertiser, October 14, 2002.
Linda Marie Walker, ‘Unseen, all too visible’, Real Time, No. 59, February-March 2004.
Ewart Shaw, interview, Radio Adelaide, March 27, 2004.
Adam Dutkiewicz, ‘Breaking the abstract mold’, The Advertiser, July 17, 2004.
Chris Reid, ‘Ian Greig’, Australian Art Collector, No. 29, July-September 2004.
Jeff Makin, 'Critic's Choice', Melbourne Herald-Sun, 2007
Kerry Coleman, 'Open Gallery', Sydney Morning Herald, 2007