Paintings

Greg Creek’s large paintings manifest ideas in various ways using tonalist forms, painterly stains and scumbles, saturated, compositional colour, and screen-printed fragments in abstracted, tenebrous architectures or landscapes, sometimes scanning multiple canvases.

Sourced from events across his life, often with actual friends or acquaintances acting as protagonists, the paintings extend or fictionalise shared experiences. Their collective working title is ‘homunculus paintings’, a reference to an inner image-map of self projected into the world as ghost or shadow figures, and projected back

Light and darkness is used expressively and symbolically, creating an atmosphere of anxiety in which figures and landscapes unsettle one another. He weaves re-imagined spectral figures, ruptured domestic and industrial architectures, and ideas from speculative fiction into allegories of contemporary experience.

Works are often composites with cut-ups on raw linen grounds collaged so that the pictorial plane reads both as a unified narrative structure and the rear of the painting as a repaired corpus. In them Creek layers abstract, textual and figurative affects that intensify the spaces of representation. Fragments emerge from interior and exterior spaces.

His works combine the perturbed and the beautiful, the imaginary and the sincere, the uncanny and the everyday.. They bear witness to the entanglements of contemporary cultures and the complexities of transformation, identity and the nature of representation itself.