Artist: sculpture | installation | ephemeral | poetry

Greer's work is a search for meaning, she makes explorations both within and outside our modern human based systems. Life came into being with an end in mind: more life. Modern humanity has turned this on its head, destroying life at every turn and stripping each of us as it goes of the connected meaning that arises when we are deeply connected to a thriving living world... and when we are contributory and participatory to this thrivingness.

This is the space within which Greer works: her work is dedicated to Life and life, to the tapestry of Life that flows though each of us — from all our ancestors — plant or animal, or our direct human lineage, into an infinite future influenced by our choices. Nature — the tapestry of all Life — teaches Greer about possibilities, humility, mystery, reciprocity, form, function, teleology…

This focus on life in her practice has brought grief to the fore; she has come to understand it as a life force that allows us to hold the memory of our deep life entangled history. Greer has come to realise that from the beginning her work has been about grief — she just did not know it. As of 2019 grief became a named focus with a solo exhibition at Shoalhaven Regional Gallery ephemeral: lessons in grief her first public declaration. Grief weaves its way through all the work she now does, from public engagement work such as ghost trees 2021, invited Sculptor in Residence @ Sculpture in the Gardens Wollongong, to intentional conversations with visitors to exhibitions installed in other venues.

Greer's sculptural works often uses transparency, repeated elements and colour to explore forms within space… to ask who we are and how can we as individuals and as a species be participatory and contributory to the whole of life.

Greer has had the opportunity to exhibit in many sculpture exhibitions and have been awarded prizes for a number of works: distant time in 2012 @ Sculpture at Scenic World, reprieve in 2016 @ Western Sydney Acquisitive Sculpture Prize, post tensioning: a monument to yesterday’s comfort 2019 @ reIMAGINE Sculpture Project, collecting tears 2023 @ Kangaroo Valley Sculpture Prize. With works in public collections: resting place 2014 @ Western Sydney University Kingswood Campus Library, phases 2022 @ Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre. In 2018 crosswind was purchased for a private collection in Woodstock, New York. Greer has published two collections of poetry: ephemeral 2014 & veiling: grief and delight 2022; in 2022 veiling: grief and delight was launched as a theatrical happening in collaboration with Jillian O’Dowd who also directed the event.

Please view images, video, details biography and further information about projects on my web site: www.greertaylor.net