Arran Gregory is a British Sri-Lankan artist based in the UK.
His practice is rooted in sculpture as a means of grounding, a way of working with earth not just as material, but as teacher and meditation. He is interested in exploring themes such as impermanence, transcendence and the primal-psyche to percieve and sense nature through non-human, elemental and timeless perspectives.
Through Earth Body, an ongoing series of site-specific sculptures, he works directly with soil, clay, natural material and pigment gathered from the land.
Seeing soil as an organism, rather than a medium, he focuses on creating the conditions for something to unfold. Gathering is the primary act where these journeys begin- in gathering materials directly from the land, and gathering space within the environment. Guided by local insight and indigenous wisdoms, the act of making becomes a shared process- valuing stillness, presence, instinct and allowing narratives to unfold through the mind’s-touch, time and memory. What arrives becomes inseparable from its surroundings; it is formed through them, absorbed back into them, and dissolved into space.
Like the landscape itself, these forms are alive- shifting, breathing, growing and evolving in communion with the natural forces that govern us all. They are geological expressions shaped in direct dialogue with the elemental world- framing existence for what it really is.
Alongside these sculptural forms, short films become extensions of the process, expanding the narratives and understanding that channels through the work. Gregory’s practice is an invitation to slow, ground and honour the lessons revealed by nature through an experiential process. What emerges is not purely the sculptural object, but a conversation with the living world, where the boundaries between body, time and territory blur.
His practice is rooted in sculpture as a means of grounding, a way of working with earth not just as material, but as teacher and meditation. He is interested in exploring themes such as impermanence, transcendence and the primal-psyche to percieve and sense nature through non-human, elemental and timeless perspectives.
Through Earth Body, an ongoing series of site-specific sculptures, he works directly with soil, clay, natural material and pigment gathered from the land.
Seeing soil as an organism, rather than a medium, he focuses on creating the conditions for something to unfold. Gathering is the primary act where these journeys begin- in gathering materials directly from the land, and gathering space within the environment. Guided by local insight and indigenous wisdoms, the act of making becomes a shared process- valuing stillness, presence, instinct and allowing narratives to unfold through the mind’s-touch, time and memory. What arrives becomes inseparable from its surroundings; it is formed through them, absorbed back into them, and dissolved into space.
Like the landscape itself, these forms are alive- shifting, breathing, growing and evolving in communion with the natural forces that govern us all. They are geological expressions shaped in direct dialogue with the elemental world- framing existence for what it really is.
Alongside these sculptural forms, short films become extensions of the process, expanding the narratives and understanding that channels through the work. Gregory’s practice is an invitation to slow, ground and honour the lessons revealed by nature through an experiential process. What emerges is not purely the sculptural object, but a conversation with the living world, where the boundaries between body, time and territory blur.