Artist Biography
Born in Australia in 1972, lives and works in Melbourne.
Greville's work is an evolving practice which examines interstices between artifice and nature through painting. With architecture and landscape as a stage, Greville’s images draw on existing graphic vernaculars and modes of graphic production as points of reference.
Up until 2005 Greville’s focus was mainly on video, sculpture and curatorial action, with exhibitions in Sydney artist-run spaces such as Rubyare and Imperial Slacks. From 2005-2009 Greville founded and ran Studio Zeds, a cross-disciplinary art studio with Técha Noble (The Kingpins) with an emphasis on producing work for the public sphere. Here he developed an approach to painting which he has continued , living in Berlin from 2009-2011. He has collaborated on sculpture and performance works in Berlin, Munich and Melbourne. Greville occasionally produces illustrations under the Moniker: ‘Snip Green’, such as an edition of screenprints for Druck Berlin in August 2011.
Painting continues as Piers Greville’s main focus. An Australian exhibition of new paintings runs during November 2011, at Blindside Gallery in Melbourne.
Selected Exhibitions
2011
November - Sublime Artifice
Blindside, Melbourne [solo exhibition].
August - Druck Berlin
Stattbad Wedding, Berlin [group exhibition]. Screenprinted editions under moniker 'Snip Green'. Curated by Dolly Demoratti
Vertical Littoris
Engels Künst, Berlin [group exhibition with: Seamus Heidenreich, Bridget Mac, Nuno Vicente, Tatsuni Ryusui]. Curated by Zoe Keogh and Noemie Bouton: Überflug.
2010
October - A Perfect Day to Chase Tornadoes (white)
Kunsquartier Bethanien, Berlin [Group exhibition with: André Bowen, Tim Bruniges, Harriet Clare, Lottie Consalvo, James Drinkwater, Kim Fasher, Piers Greville, Christopher Horder, Zoe Keogh, Jordana Maisie and Sarah Mosca]. Curated by Superkaleidoscope.
August - Dixieland After Dark: Breed & Educate
perfromance with video and installation with Nana Dix, Tobias Yves Zintel, Joe Masi, Protein. At Porto Giesing, Munich [Collaborative performance].
May - Grand Stand (Off)
collaboration with Jordana Maisie for relational sculpture for 'Grand-Stand' exhibition in Melbourne
May - Art Squat
The Cricketers Arms Hotel, Sydney [Group exhibition]
April - Precipitate
The Rat's Nest, Sydney [Solo exhibition]
2009
March - Histories Collapse
China Heights Gallery, Sydney [Solo exhibition].
2007
Poor Yoric [touring]
Townsville regional gallery [Group exhibition with: - as below]. Curated by Anthony Wheelan
2006
June - Poor Yoric
Virginia Wilson Fine Art, Sydney.
[Group exhibition with: Koji Ryui, Emma Price, Tim Silver, Tim McMonagle, Christopher Hanrahan, Shaun Gladwell, Jamie North, Fiona Lowry, Mel O’Callaghan,Tim Storrier, Paul Wrigley]. Curated by Anthony Wheelan
2005
October - Graphic Seraphic
Studio 194, Surry Hills, Solo show of one-off prints, drawings, and textiles [Solo exhibition].
April - Whitewash Exhibition
Torquay.
Collaboration with Studio Zeds. Part of the international Surf Culture Festival.
2004
May - The Drawing Room
Blank Space Gallery, Sydney. [Group exhibition] Drawing exhibition of new Sydney artists. Curated by Back in Five
2003
January - Slacking Off
Imperial Slacks Gallery. Commemorative closing exhibition for the artist-run initiative. [Group exhibition with: Imperial Slacks Collective]
2002
July - United In Joy
Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney.
Images of horror and vertigo, relating to the September 11 attacks and raging war in Afganistan. [Group exhibition with: Fiona Lowry]
April - Deskjob
Mori Gallery, Sydney.
Collective installation work re-situating and representing office constructs in the relational vacum of a gallery. [Group exhibition with: Angelica Mesiti, Julie Fragar, Jessica Macneill, Chris Fox, Marc Dempsey, TV Moore, David Thomas, Simon Cavanaugh, Fiona Lowry, Simon Yates, Melody Willis, James Burke]
February - Montage First Draft Gallery, Sydney [Group exhibition] Curated by Emil Goh
2001
July - Artcastle
Dover Heights, Sydney.
[Group exhibition with: Julie Fragar, TV Moore, Marc Dempsey, Jessica Macneil, Fiona Lowry, Koji Ryui, Chris Fox, Emma Price, Técha Noble Natsuho Takita]
October - Graphicalogistics
Oxford Street Sydney. [Group exhibition with: Ben Single (Aus), Deanne Cheuk (Aus), Daim (Germany), Dmote, Dash ,Codeak (Germany), Marok (Germany), Seak (Germany), Tasek (Germany)]
2000
March - Embryo Electro
Gallerie Rubyayre, Sydney, Video and painting installation [Solo exhibition].
December - Monkey Controller
Alley Gallery, Sydney, wall painting and large-scale collage [Solo exhibition].
