Richard Gregory
Blandford Forum, Dorset
Richard Gregory is a UK-based artist who makes drawings, object installations, sculpture and digital works about human intersections with nature.
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Projects
2026 Convergence: Heart Land
2025 Droves & Downs Bursary Award Cranborne Chase National Landscape research project
2024-25 Road Trip Found objects become repositories of fractured memories
2024 Infinite Loop An object experiment with industrial components and visceral implications
2023-24 Surveillance Site-specific work: drawing, sculpture, video and digital for Convergence with twenty3 art collective
2023 The formation of twenty3 art collective A cohesive group of six artists working to create, exhibit and publish
2022-23 Cache, Cache II Gallery installation of found objects with custom surface interventions
2022 Plinth/Wedge Site-specific land installation, Chesil Bank, Dorset
2022 Forest Driftwood, Setthorns Site-specific land installation, Sway, Hampshire
Event Participation
2025 Moving, Belonging and Boundary Arts University Bournemouth
2024 Installation at 75 Woodstock Road, Oxford Arts University Bournemouth Drawing Research Group
2023 MA Fine Art Inter-Institutional Symposium Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge: Artist talk, panel discussion and pop-up exhibition
2022 Interwoven SpudWORKS, Sway, Hampshire: Workshops, collaborations, curation, exhibition, panel discussion
2022 Zoetropic Animation Workshop and Inter-Institutional Symposium Arts University Bournemouth: Exhibition, performance, panel discussion
Group shows
2026 Convergence: Heart Land twenty3 art collective at Chapel Arts Studios, Andover, Hampshire
2025-26 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead; et al.
2025-26 Droves & Downs Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Shaftesbury, Dorset; Museum of East Dorset, Wimborne
2025 CAS Open Open 2025: Wish You Were Here Chapel Arts Studios, Andover, Hampshire
2025 Moving, Belonging and Boundary Arts University Bournemouth Graduate School MA Fine Art students, alumni and staff at Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset
2025 In Our Nature Dorset Visual Arts members at Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park, Swanage, Dorset
2025 On Close Inspection twenty3 art collective at Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Shaftesbury, Dorset
2025 The Slade Centre Biennial Open Print Exhibition 2025 The Slade Centre, Gillingham, Dorset
2024-25 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Trinity Buoy Wharf, London; Salisbury Museum; Falmouth Art Gallery; Cooper Gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee; Waterside Arts, Sale, Manchester
2024 Spud Open: Hold On, Let Go SpudWORKS, Hampshire
2024 Convergence twenty3 art collective at Fine Foundation Gallery, Durlston Country Park, Swanage, Dorset
2023 Spud Open: Digital Dreaming SpudWORKS, Hampshire
2022 Spud Open: Our Changing Landscape SpudWORKS, Hampshire
2022 Interwoven Pop-up exhibition, SpudWORKS, Hampshire
Awards, achievements
2025 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 Shortlisted, selected for exhibition
2025 Droves & Downs Bursary Award Dorset Visual Arts with Cranborne Chase National Landscape
2024 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Shortlisted, selected for exhibition
2024 New Forest National Park Authority Artist Residency 2025 Shortlisted
2023 Spud Open: Digital Dreaming, SpudWORKS, Hampshire Overall Winner
Publications
2025 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 Catalogue
2024 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Catalogue
Groups
2023– Arts University Bournemouth Drawing Research Group
2023– twenty3 art collective
Earlier career
1992–2020 Independent creative director in graphic design and typography
Teaching, Mentoring
1992–2001 Sessional Lecturer, BA Graphic Communication, Surrey Institute of Art and Design
2009–2011 Design Buddy, BA Graphic Design and Illustration, Arts University College, Bournemouth
Education
2021–23 The Graduate School, Arts University Bournemouth, MA Fine Art
1972–76 Epsom School of Art & Design, Communication Design
Statement
I am a visual artist. My practice is centred on drawing, and includes object installation, photography, digital works, printmaking and painting. The work references human, industrial and natural environments as source material to frame questions of memory, identity and origin.
I make discoveries through walking, cycling and loitering. I keep an eye on the obvious and what’s happening around the edges. I document through photography, lists and mindmaps, and visceral memory (feelings aroused by place and time are critical).
Monotony, repetition and rhythm are recurring elements bringing a sense of ritual to performative and graphic works, one-offs and series. Patterns and motifs are present, with examples appearing in landwork, sculpture and digital drawing. It’s not clear at the outset what medium I will choose to develop a particular thought. My studio methods narrow down choices until a series of works can be developed, often choosing several media to reflect together on a single idea.
Printmaking and digital opportunities arise for me from projects that begin in other, sometimes ephemeral, forms such as land work or temporary sculptures. The print, video or digital artefact remains as a tangible record of such work and is more than a mere document.
I have dedicated my time to making art since 2021, graduating from the MA in Fine Art from Arts University Bournemouth in 2023. I work from my studio in North Dorset.