M - Antennae The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

Gregory Pryor
Black Solander (installation shot at PICA Perth) ink, graphite and spirit based ink on sugar paper, 2005 � Gregory Pryor
should be reflective of the dark language of Victorian
mourning rituals.
When the day came to finally begin the project, I
stepped out of my house in the morning and the entire
city of Perth was shrouded in thick smoke from bushfires
burning out of control in the hills of the Darling scarp.
Despite the poor visibility, this time, I knew where I was
going.
Notes
1 Seddon, G. (1997) Landprints: reflections on place and landscape, Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge p.111
2 Hopper, S. (2004) South Western Australia, cinderella of the world’s temperate
floristic regions 2, from Curtis’s Botanical magazine, Volume 21 Part 2 May
2004 Rix, M. (ed) Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew pp 140 - 142
Gregory Pryor is a multi-form artist currently based in Perth, Western Australia. He
lectures in Visual Arts at Edwin Cowan University, Perth and holds a BA (Fine Art)
and a Graduate Diploma in Fine Arts from RMIT University Melbourne. Most
recently he has completed a residency with Stour Valley Arts in the United
Kingdom, working on a project about King’s Wood in Kent. In 2007, he was an
artist in residence at the Taipei Artists Village; exhibited at Lister Gallery, Perth and
his work was shown in the 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art. Pryor
regularly exhibits at international and national level and his work is held in a
number of public and private national collections.
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