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Mr Gregory Pryor

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
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