Greg johns sculpture

With a career as a full time sculptor spanning more than 40 years Greg Johns is both a champion of Australian sculpture and the Australian landscape. Drawing inspiration from his Palmer property in the Adelaide Hills, Johns’ work is layered with ecological interests and recurrent ideas of history, mythology, physics and the spiritual. . His powerful sculptures are unequivocally Australian in feel, influenced not only by the physical forms he sees but also referencing the experience of living in this ancient land.

‘I have dared over the last five decades to make sculpture that engages with questions of timelessness and place. This has been against the recent dominant paradigms of the art world, where passing trends, internationalism, deconstruction, and notions such as Post Modernism and positive nihilism have held sway. This is what has made my sculpture challenging. It draws from the bottomless well of the selfless, rather than the surface world of the self. Contemporary mythology, place, previous and contemporary sculpture, and questions of spirit all nourish my output. It is a source of endless wonder, forever changing in form but connected to something which is very still, changeless’. – Greg Johns, 2017 .