Gregor uses his creative practice to push the boundaries of understanding, tackling the most complex and fundamental questions of our time. Academically trained to the highest level in art, architecture and science, he harnesses the power of thought experiments, visualisations and material expression to create bodies of work that are seductive images and rigorous investigations of his subjects.
In his current work, Gregor considers society’s reliance on physics to uncover the mysteries of the universe, arguing that we also need a leap of imagination. His large-scale works take some of the most fascinating ideas from physics and from those, conceive visual expressions of fundamental structures that might reveal an underlying truth to the nature of the universe. Gregor is supported in his work by the Quantum Theory Group at the University of Glasgow, who are helping him understand current thinking about physics and offering a sounding board for the ideas he is developing.
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Beyond absolute zero
In 2024 Glasgow University commissioned Gregor to create two large paintings to celebrate 200 years since the birth of physicist Lord Kelvin. The two contrasting pieces confronted one another in the Advanced Research Centre, one representing the light universe and one the dark universe.
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Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s is a complex video animation featuring the life of Eileen Dyson, an actress who appeared in six episodes of Morecambe and Wise’s BBC show ‘Double Six’. The animation tracks Eileen’s optimistic experience of living with Alzheimer’s and challenges our perception of the disease. It was developed with input from Eileen’s family as well as metaphysician Dr Kim Jobst, the Psychology Department at Bristol University, and Baroness Susan Greenfield.
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Gene Meme
Gene Meme involved 50 abstract paintings representing the proliferation of life and 50 elegies exploring the over-exploitation of natural resources by civilisations throughout history. Installed in the Crypt under St Pancras Parish Church in London, it focussed on the highly controversial issue of population growth and was accompanied by a public debate chaired by broadcaster Geoff Watts and featuring zoologist Aubrey Manning. Sales of paintings raised money for the charity Street Child Africa. Each painting sold allowed a child to be taken off the streets and given an apprenticeship, clothes and a place to live for a year.
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Constructed
‘Constructed’ was an installation of 50 portraits suspended on trapeze wires in the National Centre for Circus Arts, a converted combustion chamber behind Hoxton Square in London. An exposé of the much-misunderstood process of abstraction, each set of trapezes presented a series of portraits of the same subject, starting in the same way from the same viewpoint. But each subsequent painting was developed to reveal something new, and in so doing, the sequences became progressively more abstract, moving beyond any semblance of literal representation to expose more insightful underlying truths.
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Ploughed land
Ploughed land was held in the elegant Flying Colours gallery in Chelsea. Presented by Lena Boyle, the show challenged modern interpretations of the British landscape. Often romanticised and idealised in art, Gregor instead presented contemporary landscapes as human-made products, exploited and defaced by progressive intervention over thousands of years – even in the most remote and apparently wild places.
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Millennium Dome
Gregor was the trouble-shooter for the design and construction of the controversial Millennium Dome in Greenwich for four years, working with architects such as Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid, and artists such as Anish Kapoor. He helped deliver 10 installations at the Dome, including the Rest Zone, a contemplative, immersive experience of art and sound, featuring Artangel’s 1,000-year composition ‘Longplayer’.
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Gregor is a qualified architect, with a BSc in architectural studies, a BArch and a PhD in fluid dynamics. He is the creator of Designing Buildings, an online collaborative website used by 7 million people a year.
He was trained to paint one-to-one by a professional artist throughout his childhood and has a post graduate diploma in Fine Art from the City & Guilds of London Art School where he was awarded the de Laszlo Foundation Prize for Portraiture. He has had three solo shows in London and has exhibited in numerous group shows, and art fairs.
In 2012, Gregor began the search for a new subject for his artistic practice, and eventually settled on fundamental physics as the most complex, challenging and far-reaching subject of them all. He began a long period of research and made the decision to leave London for a fresh start. In 2015 he bought a rundown manse on a small island in Scotland. This required major renovation to breathe new life into the tired Victorian building and to create a large studio. In 2020 he relocated to Scotland permanently and began his artistic exploration of physics in earnest.
