Luis Gregory

Luis Gregory is GlogauAIR resident from October 2025 to December 2025.
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Luis Gregory uses assemblage to create simple, provisional propositions. He creates large scale interventions using architectural elements like jacuzzis, discarded timber, window frames and he arranges objects to feel deliberately ordinary. Luis is interested in space as a place of purposeful construction and takes delight in examining choices of material and draws from its limitations and possibilities.

Meet the Artist

Can you tell us a bit about yourself? Specifically, we’d love to know about your background.

My name is Luis I go by him/he, I am living in a regional city, Emerald Central QLD. It’s a big agricultural area, I’m proud to be here facilitating arts in the region. I did my BA at the National Art School and other than art my interests are sport, woodworking and cars. Previously, I co-directed a gallery space called Tiny Gallery with two friends, it was a mobile gallery space that we built on wheels.

How would you describe your artistic practice?

I would describe my practice as obnoxious or “ugly”. However, my considerate placement of objects are intended to mimic a feeling of the everyday. I use assemblage to create spatial interventions. I like using architectural elements like jacuzzis, discarded timber and window frames.

What is your methodology or process for creating a new project?

I start with a collection of materials that is in my studio and come up with a concept through a process of working with the materials and drawing. The artworks are developed through recreating the aura of a ready-made object that I like. I might get an idea of how an object can work in the space, and then I start thinking about what would happen if I changed it slightly or if I placed it with an object which I have a relationship with and see what happens.

What’s the project you’re working on during GlogauAIR’s residency?

For my on-line residency at GlogauAIR, I am sculpting a self portrait using wood steaming techniques. I’m trying to give myself the time to focus on my own face and capture its details; exploring the combusting that happens within a person and their internal world, in tension with the external world. I am hoping that later it can be used as a mold for casting with wood, bricks and copper and used as outdoor sculpture.

Interview conducted by Sina & Jörg

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Statement

Luis Gregory uses assemblage to create simple, provisional propositions. He creates large scale interventions using architectural elements like jacuzzis, discarded timber and window frames. In these works there is little evidence of the artist hand; he places and arranges things to look ordinary, playing on the feeling of the everyday. Gregory chooses objects that have functional uses, deliberate design features and is attentive to distinct colour palettes. In the gallery these objects act in the same way as paint on the canvas. The placement of one object is in relation to other objects and the space. Gregory is interested in space as a place of purposeful construction, and takes delight in examining choices of material and draws from its limitations and possibilities.

GlogauAIR Project

Four sculptures: a wooden face, a metal assemblage, a star picket cast in bronze and a colourful wooden portal. The works have undertones of the harsh effects of the outdoor elements and the ephemerality of our existences that come with that. The work aims to absorb the diversity of human experience and become closer to understanding more about emotions.

The wooden face is because I have always loved drawing people. I want the wood to look sleek, after sanding it back and polishing it. I want to have creative freedom with sculpting the face, but to resemble some image of peace. I think I originally wanted to make a head that looked psychological.

The colourful wooden portal is a flat work with lots of joins in it. I am hoping it will provide a point of entering or leaving to question how viewers got there.

The star picket cast in bronze is marking where we are in time, as it marks the measurement of land.

The metal assemblage is going to be a process based artwork of the artist working with found materials. The work will provide a random and unpredicted analogy for the space.