Johns, Greg
Greg Johns is an Australian sculptor who works primarily in steel. Johns' work, both large and small; take on figurative, fractal and free forms. His major influences stem from his own experiences throughout his career and moreover by the rural Australian landscape itself. This landscape is mirrored throughout John's work giving it a feeling of "roughness, toughness and vulnerability"
With roots that reach back to Europe [both in terms of his family history and also respect for British sculptors who preceded him] his work has over the last thirty five slowly made connections with the place in which he lives; a place which is very different to Europe. One would expect different forms to grow out of this hot, dry, often unimpeded environment, which contrasts so dramatically with the green, farmed fields of Europe. “Silent Figure” is such a work and as such I feel it offers something fresh, in terms of form and sensibility, to the long history of European sculpture.