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Mr Gregory Pryor

Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6658
Email: g.pryor@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
Room: ML5.124  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3433-2076

Gregory is a Lecturer within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Current teaching

  • VIS1315 - Foundation Studio
  • VIS3120 - Painting Studio 2
  • CCA 3108 - Independent Study
  • VIS3151 - Contemporary Studio 1: Investigation and Development
  • SAH1150 - Creativity
  • VIS2120 - Painting Studio 1

Awards and recognition

National and International awards

  • 2021 - Splash Watercolour Award, McClelland Art Gallery, Victoria
  • 2010 - City of Perth Painting Commission

National and International Research Awards

  • 2018 - Australia Council for the Arts, arts projects for individuals and groups
  • 2015 - Creative Arts Development Fellowship, Department of Culture and the Arts
  • 2009 - Department of Culture and the Arts Western Australia and Arts Council England
  • 2008 - Residency with Stour Valley Arts, Kent, United Kingdom
  • Australia Council skills and arts development grant
  • 2007 - ARTSWA grant for New Work
  • City of Perth exchange residency to Taipei Artists Village, Taiwan
  • 2006 - Synapse Art and Science Residency, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Perth
  • 2005 - Edith Cowan University small research grant
  • 2002 - Australia/China Council Residency in Beijing, China
  • Arts Victoria International Program grant for "Bird Painting" project in Beijing
  • Austrian Federal Arts Chancellery Residency in Vienna
  • Australia Council project Grant for New work

Research areas and interests

  • Painting
  • Environmental damage and loss
  • Historical art conservation and restoration approaches as a model for contemporary art approaches to landscape damage and loss
  • Non-traditional approaches to botanical visualisation
  • The visual language of botanical archives
  • Contemporary art approaches to the flora of Western Australia
  • Retrospective corrections of colonial depictions of place
  • Chinese painting materials and methodologies
  • Chinese iconoclasm and government endorsed land clearing in Australia

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Art, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
  • Graduate Diploma, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.

Research Outputs

2023

Book Chapters

  • Uhlmann, P., Pryor, G. (2023). Love of Process: Intimacy and Attention Within Painting, Life, and Art. Contemporary Love Studies in the Arts and Humanities: What's Love Got To Do With It? (109-122). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26055-1_10.

2019

Creative Arts Research Outputs

2017

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2017). Looking Glass. Art Gallery of Western Australia.

2016

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2016). The Yilgarn Lacunae. Turner Galleries Booth, World Trade Centre, Taipei, Taiwan.

2014

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2014). Nanuk 2. Mundaring Arts Centre.
  • Pryor, G. (2014). Taking Fire (Conflagration). Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
  • Pryor, G. (2014). Elijah and the Silence. Linton and Kay Gallery, Perth and New Norcia Monastery.
  • Pryor, G. (2014). Pinjarra 1834. Spectrum Project Space.
  • Pryor, G. (2014). Lacunae. Lister Gallery, Perth.

2013

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2013). Holly Story - Look Both Ways. Artlink, Volume 33, No. 1. Artlink Australia.

2012

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2012). Socially Engaged Fifo Art?. Artlink, Volume 32, No 1. Artlink Australia.
  • Pryor, G. (2012). The world's contracted thus - exhibition catalogue essay. Big Scope: Painting and Place. Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.
  • Pryor, G. (2012). Nanuk 1. Mundaring Arts Centre.
  • Pryor, G. (2012). Apollonia. Paper Mountain Gallery.
  • Pryor, G. (2012). Swan Water. National Museum of Natural Science and Botanic Garden, Taichung, Taiwan.

2011

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2011). Perth. Council House, Perth.
  • Pryor, G. (2011). Beyond Sparrows. Remix - WA Contemporary Art. Art Gallery of Western Australia.

2010

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2010). Vapour Trails. Australian Embassy, Washington DC, USA.
  • Pryor, G. (2010). The White and Black of Things (My back garden does not fit). Mundaring Arts Centre.
  • Pryor, G. (2010). Blattgasse Botanik and Iron Ball Taxonomy 2. Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.
  • Pryor, G. (2010). Grevillea Nematophylla (Pillow of Wind). Gallery Central Perth.
  • Pryor, G. (2010). Hungry Ghost of the West. RMIT Gallery, Melbourne.
  • Pryor, G. (2010). In Darkness Let Me Dwell and Golgotha comes to Mind. Mundaring Arts Centre.

2009

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2009). Gate (Kellerberrin) , Gate (Malevich lying in state). Swan TAFE Midland.
  • Pryor, G. (2009). Shilo. Ian Potter Museum of Art.
  • Pryor, G. (2009). Herbario Nojciano and 5 other works. Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery.
  • Pryor, G. (2009). Overland to underwood. Lister Gallery, Perth.
  • Pryor, G. (2009). The Miracle of the Legs. King's Wood, Kent, UK.
  • Pryor, G. (2009). King's Wood Illuminations. Gregory Pryor in residence at Stour Valley Arts. Stour Valley Arts.

2008

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2008). Black Noise (Ghost of Tongcao). Adelaide biennial of Australian Art.

2007

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2007). Iron Ball Taxonomy. Lawrence Wilson art Gallery at the University of Western Australia.
  • Pryor, G. (2007). Naked. Lister Gallery.

2006

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2006). Soft Country. The Gallery @ Ellenbrook House.
  • Pryor, G. (2006). Grain of Night. IASKA Gallery, Kellerberrin WA.
  • Pryor, G. (2006). Vrnitev / The return.

2005

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2005). List from 131002-231204, 2002-5. Art Gallery of WA.
  • Pryor, G. (2005). Black Solander. PICA.
  • Pryor, G. (2005). Black Death, in Ecology, Everyone’s Business. Artlink v.25, no.4, 2005: 26-28.. 25.
  • Pryor, G. (2005). Contribution to This & Other Worlds - Contemporary Australian Drawing. The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Federation Square.
  • Pryor, G. (2005). Remove a thorn deeply embedded. Photofile 73 summer 2005. Australian Centre for Photography.

2004

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2004). Green Method I and II. Lakeside shopping centre, Joondalup.
  • Pryor, G. (2004). A whirly whirl underneath a lion. Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Vic.
  • Pryor, G. (2004). After the Fire. Formation and Form, West Space 1993 – 2003. West Space and 3 Deep Publishing.

2003

Creative Arts Research Outputs

  • Pryor, G. (2003). In Arenosis ad Fulvium Cygnorum. Midland Railway workshops.

Research Projects

  • Practice led research into painting conservation and restoration materials and processes in Taiwan, Australia Council for the Arts, Grant, 2019, $69,746.
  • An exhibition of 17 new oil paintings with the working title The Yilgarn Interruptions, Edith Cowan University, School of Arts and Humanities Research Grant Scheme 2016, 2016 ‑ 2017, $20,000.

Research Student Supervision

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