Piers Greville is a contemporary artist with a studio practice in painting and field based performance.

Taking painting as an inherently political act, Piers Greville’s currnet work locates such positions within historical paintings, reenacting them alongside paintings of existing terrains to draw on narrative continuity, a dialogue across time.

He revisits a practice of tracing the landscape—as a former mountain endurance athlete—physically traversing then re-visiting it through artistic inquiry, drawing on its layered histories.

Completing a research MFA at The University of Melbourne in 2018, under Prof. Jon Cattapan, he graduated with first-class Honours and multiple Awards. In 2019 he won the John Glover Award for landscape painting. He was invited to present his performance-based work What Is Here for the European nomadic biennial, Manifesta14 in Kosovo, 2022.

Piers Greville is represented by Magma Galleries in Melbourne and Dominik Mersch Gallery in Sydney.

Awards

 March 2019 - Winner of the 2019 Glover Prize for Tasmanian landscape painting. Judged by artist Joan Ross, director of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG) Janet Carding, and Barry Keldoulis who is CEO of Art Fairs Australia.

 June 2023 - Finalist, The Valerie Taylor Art Prize for Ocean Advocacy.
Judged by Coby Edgar, Curator of First Nations Strategic Projects at the Powerhouse Museum, Anne Ryan, Curator of Australian Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Lucy Turnbull AO, urbanist, businesswoman, philanthropist and contemporary art collector

 February 2020 - Finalist, 2020 Glover Prize for Tasmanian landscape painting. Judged by Chris Saines, Jarrod Rawlins, and Fiona Lowry.

 February 2020 - Finalist, Athenaeum Club Visual Arts Research Award.

 December 2018 - The Dominik Mersch Gallery Award, awarded at the University of Melbourne, and resulting in Siren Song Creek, the first exhibition with Dominik Mersch Gallery in February 2019.

 December 2018 - David Richards Drawing Award, from the Ursula Hoff Foundation.

Links

Informality Gallery (UK) artist feature and viewing room
https://informality.co/viewing-room/piers-greville/

Dominik Mersch Gallery artist page
https://www.dominikmerschgallery.com/artist/piers-greville/

Artsy profile (VCA - Universtiy of Melbourne)
https://www.artsy.net/artist/piers-greville

VCA Access profile
https://vcaaccess.com.au/students/piers-greville/

Manifesta project page
https://manifesta14.org/event/artistic-intervention-petrit-abazi-piers-greville-stanislava-pinchuk-2/

Study for The Curse of Empire, 2026, oil on board, diptych total 40x 60 cm.


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