JOHN GREER - ART IS A LANGUAGE

Please listen to the newest Episode of Materially Speaking - the podcast with Sarah Monk. Here I am talking about Art and Life. Thank you Sarah for the insightful interview and Gail Skoff, for the remarkable images!

Stephen Borys, Qaumajug Director and CEO of the Winnipeg Art Gallery curated an exhibition around John Greer's seminal work "Black Seeds" as the first introduction of this floor bound sculpture as part of the permanent collection of the museum.

Various Metals and Stones will open on December 17th, 2022 and will run through April 2nd, 2023.

"The Sirens' Calling" by John Greer has been shortlisted for the NS Masterworks Award.

As the jury commented: “The Sirens’ Calling is a pinnacle of public sculpture – uniting observers with the work and surroundings. A masterfully crafted work reflective of and accessible to all.” 

Find out more here: The Sirens' Calling

and on the site of Intercontinental Sculpture Inc.

You can find some information about my work and that of Vanessa Paschakarnis in the first edition of Intercontinental Sculpture Inc.'s online magazine!

Please click on the image to be directed to the online magazine!

February 2020

John Greer places new sculpture in private sculpture park in Virginia, USA.

Rolling hills are the setting of this state of the art collection and John has his new stainless steel "Sirens Echo", 2020 placed adjacent a lake and in vicinity to a wonderful array of world renowned sculpture.

John Greer: Hard Thought
Ray Cronin

2019 / Canadian Art, Biography, Artists / $21.95
9781554471980 / Trade paper / 64 pp

A Gaspereau Field Guide to Canadian Artists: No. 4

When John Greer (b. 1944) started teaching sculpture at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the 1970s, the college was fast becoming one of the incubators of the emerging international Conceptual Art movement. From his early experiments in conceptual sculpture, Greer’s artistic practice shifted to re-engage with traditional sculptural forms and techniques, re-imagining them in a way that would make him a pivotal figure in contemporary sculpture in Canada. In his essay, Ray Cronin recounts the arc of Greer’s career, demonstrating how Greer’s work refreshes and extends our understanding of the language of sculpture and the way in which thought might be made manifest in material.