![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Whirling Mandala 2014. [GJ201607001_1/9] (Solid Mild Steel)](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/w/whirling-mandala-2014-4164-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Whirling Mandala 2014
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_2/13c] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Carved))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4172-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_3/13c] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Carved))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4173-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_6/13c] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Carved))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4176-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_7/13c] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Carved))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4177-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_9/13s] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Smooth))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4179-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_11/13s] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Smooth))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4181-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
![Australian Indigenous (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) artwork by GREG JOHNS of Miscellaneous Artists. The title is Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016. [GJ201607007_12/13s] (Australian Jarrah Hardwood (Smooth))](https://media.redotgallery.com/stockroom/gallery/l/landings-landlines-songlines-2016-4182-SMALL.png)
GREG JOHNS
Landings, Landlines, Songlines 2016
Greg Johns was born in Adelaide in 1953 where he attended the South Australian School of Art from 1975-78. Since graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1978, he has worked continuously in Adelaide for close to 40 years as a full-time sculptor, completing major commissions in Australia and internationally, as well as exhibiting annually in solo and major group shows in Australia, New York, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
At art school, key influences were sculpture lecturers such as Bert Flugelman, Max Lyle and Owen Broughton, who introduced him to the use of Corten steel, a material to which he has maintained a career-long allegiance, equating its rich self-protecting rust surface with the colours and geological ethos of the Australian outback landscape.
In the decade following his graduation from art school, Johns’ main focus was on interlocking geometric patterning, initially from the triangle and square to the circle, from concentric semi-circular elements to single, vertical mandala forms, which over time evolved into increasingly articulated chain-like, quarter-circle components, linked in a fractal-like relationship.
In 2001 he acquired 400 acres of land at Palmer in South Australia, to establish an independent sculpture landscape, and address environmental issues and in 2013 a major work “At The Centre [There Is Nothing]” was installed on Sydney Harbour. As a person Greg Johns is genuinely concerned about the environment and is working with like-minded individual to restore the farmland at Palmer: as an artist he is exhibiting on the world stage. He is both a committed environmentalist and a dedicated, highly successful sculptor.
Greg Johns was born in Adelaide in 1953 where he attended the South Australian School of Art from 1975-78. Since graduating with a Diploma of Fine Arts in 1978, he has worked continuously in Adelaide for close to 40 years as a full-time sculptor, completing major commissions in Australia and internationally, as well as exhibiting annually in solo and major group shows in Australia, New York, Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
At art school, key influences were sculpture lecturers such as Bert Flugelman, Max Lyle and Owen Broughton, who introduced him to the use of Corten steel, a material to which he has maintained a career-long allegiance, equating its rich self-protecting rust surface with the colours and geological ethos of the Australian outback landscape.
In the decade following his graduation from art school, Johns’ main focus was on interlocking geometric patterning, initially from the triangle and square to the circle, from concentric semi-circular elements to single, vertical mandala forms, which over time evolved into increasingly articulated chain-like, quarter-circle components, linked in a fractal-like relationship.
In 2001 he acquired 400 acres of land at Palmer in South Australia, to establish an independent sculpture landscape, and address environmental issues and in 2013 a major work “At The Centre [There Is Nothing]” was installed on Sydney Harbour. As a person Greg Johns is genuinely concerned about the environment and is working with like-minded individual to restore the farmland at Palmer: as an artist he is exhibiting on the world stage. He is both a committed environmentalist and a dedicated, highly successful sculptor.
Australian Sculptural Extravaganza
A Collection of Contemporary Australian Sculptures
