British-Sri Lankan artist Arran Gregory explores the interrelationships between technology and the living world. Through observation of the laws of nature, his works are a dialogue between humanity and the natural environment.
Works question the space between the two and three-dimensional, switching between both, and using sculpture as an extension of drawing. Here, he invites viewers to experience themselves as instinctual, as animal and to re-examine their relationship with the environment.
Life-sized animal and abstract natural forms become characters used by which to connect and explore the primitive human psyche. Through continuous changes and translations in different materials, shapes and scales; works take shape as graphically reduced forms, in both physical and symbolic sense.
Recent works have been exploring the use of earth and raw clay where he has been creating site specific sculptures in the forest directly from found natural materials. He has been reinterpreting ancient practices within a contemporary framework in order to connect the dots between the primitive past and the digital present.
Selected Exhibitions
and Residencies:
2024
Arteles Residency, Back To Basics Program, Haukijarvi, Finland. 1 month
2023
SALT AND PEPPER, Geoglyphs solo show, (Tokyo, Japan)
2023
FIELD SCAPE, Blok Clapton. London
2023
CHOREOGRAPHIES PT II, Blok Leyton, (London)
2020
SALT AND PEPPER x BEAMS T, (Tokyo, Japan)
2019
AEROBRICKS, Blok London (Spitalfields and Clapton) London,UK
2019
WOODEN SKETCHES, (Studio Eksotika, Potato Head, Bali)
2019
DOPAMINE DANCE, (Artist’s studio, Panther House, London)
2019
PLEASANT PROJECTS, (Group show, Panther House, London)
2018
16:9 (INSTRMNT, Glasgow, Scotland)
2017
SAFARI (Chelsea Cross, London, UK)
2017
STUDIO (Daily Goods, London, UK)
2016
I sit at my desk all day when I should really be out hunting (GP Studio-Arch Gallery, London, UK)
2016
SPRINT (BLOK, London, UK)
2016
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (RA, London, UK)
2015
HUNT solo show, (Old Truman Brewery, London)
2015
SPRINT with Champ Magazine (S.O Gallery, Tokyo, Japan)
2023: ‘Geoglyphs’ solo show, Salt and Pepper, Tokyo, Japan
