Greg Creek

Greg Creek
Australian, born 1959; lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne

Swallow-Vomit painting 2022
oil and synthetic polymer paint on linen
Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Scout Presents, Naarm/Melbourne

Artist statement:

My practice represents a political perspective on personal and public histories, engaging specific iconographies, narrative and allegory.

Swallow-Vomit painting manifests ideas in various ways using tonalist forms, painterly stains and scumbles, saturated, compositional colour, and screen-printed body fragments in an abstracted, tenebrous architecture. Light is used in an expressive and symbolic way, creating an atmosphere of anxiety in which figures and landscapes reflect one another.

Here, in a bleak and unstable urban-scape, glowing phone-like advertising panels at an elevated platform face off; one screen bearing a fragmented gaping-mouth transfiguring the other, which is purged or penetrated. In the foreground silhouetted local flora extend a looming, passing presence.

In the picture we see a social environment consumed by the circulation of images in advertising and social media spreading a corrosive trace.