About Greer

Grew up in the Northern Suburbs of the Illawarra, in a small coastal town called Austinmer. Have recently finished studying a Masters of Teaching in Primary Education after graduating from a Visual Arts degree at the University of Wollongong. I'm driven by my highly charged love of clay and textiles, inspired by the collection of locally sourced clay and natural materials. The clay I have used has not been through any sort of processing. I have dug it out of the ground, sculptured it and then fired it in the kiln. Some pieces are painted in brightly coloured glazes; it is naive, unsophisticated and breakable. 

 

I am interested in the intellectual, emotional and primal relationship between humans and their surroundings and environment. My understanding of a human’s role in the environment has changed. I once saw humans as being under the umbrella of “nature,” subservient to natural happenings. I now realise that humans are the largest variable in the changing of people’s perceptions and their understandings. This Anthropic Era in which humankind lives has an unmistakable impact on the planet, consuming resources at a considerable rate, deforestation, mass extinction of plants and animals, altering more that 50 per cent of earth’s land and changing its atmosphere.

 

These biomorphic embroidered shapes are modelled along naturally occurring patterns, reminiscent of living organisms while latching onto this [wo]man-made rusted silk. That nature is struggling to survive in this decomposing landscape and the rust impregnated in the silk seeks to show how some people’s calcified ideals on nature, climate and the effects of global warming. The installation of this artwork is worked to bring together the object which did the imprinting, connecting this textile process with the land. The hand-made, dyed and embroidered silk explores this sense of nature in its space and fragility. Stretched and confined inside the frames, the fabric is assembled in a patchwork style in a construed and desolate manner, like our politics on climate change today, bound and age-old.