Nuala Gregory
鲁娜 格雷戈瑞
副教授
女
1965年12月17日出生于北爱尔兰
曾获文学士、艺术硕士和哲学博士学位
现任奥克兰大学（新西兰）国立工业造型学院美术系主任


Associate Professor Nuala Gregory has been an exhibiting artist since graduation from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland (1988), and has an established international record of exhibitions and publications (China, Ireland, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, Japan). She has published significant original artwork that engages with the contemporary meaning of painting, printmaking and drawing. Her work consists in a “return” to the possibilities of colour and surface, in order to renew the force of the material and the visible, against predominantly discursive approaches. She has also engaged in scholarly research, co-editing a book, publishing a number of conference papers and catalogue essays on drawing, creative practice as research, and the scholarship of studio pedagogy. She has published writings on her own artwork and that of other artists and engaged in a number of artistic collaborative projects. Over the last ten years she has produced a large body of original artworks (lithographic & chine colléprints). She has led conference and symposia such as The Elam International Print Workshop and the Studio Pedagogy Symposium, both 2015. She holds a Distinguished Teaching Award and a PhD from the University of Auckland, where she is also Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Creative Arts and Industries.

The following article was a feature article in IMPRINT, a quarterly Journal of the Print Council of Australia INC. September 2015 edition.

And let me breathe
by Nuala Gregory, Associate Professor at the University of Auckland and artist specialising in painting, printmaking and drawing.

Nuala’s work has been exhibited in many countries. Below is a short extract from her writing on her exhibition at the Solander Gallery, Wellington from 16 September to 24 October 2015. The centrepiece of the exhibition is a neon sculpture, surrounded by chine-collé collages (made from hand-painted rice paper and mounted in oddly shaped frames), lithographic monotypes, and small objects including flowers and furniture.

The generic title of my recent work, Open up the window and let me breathe, is a refrain from the Van Morrison song T.B. Sheets (1967). It also contains two additional references. The first is to French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), who suffered lifelong respiratory ailments and expressed his desire for a changed world as ‘…the possible or I shall suffocate.’ The second is to the Albertian window of painting, and the desire to open that window onto a world of new possibility—a world of genuine sociability, collaboration and collective genesis of ideas.
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