Gregory Cliffe

I began my formal art training in the 1970s at TAFE and Colleges of Advanced Education in Sydney, Australia, where I was deeply influenced by Abstract Expressionism, sculptural formalism, and performance-installation art. During this period, I worked primarily as a sculptor and performance artist, with a notable highlight being two performances at the Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris in 1984, supported by an AGNSW Moya Dyring Studio residency and an Australia Council travel grant.
In the 1990s, my focus shifted towards painting, and I undertook a Master of Arts at The University of Western Sydney from 1999 to 2001. Over the past 20 years, my studio research has evolved to explore the concept of "totalized time" and the stratification of memory. These themes allow my work to integrate historical references with philosophical and ideological ideas, creating layered and thought-provoking narratives within my paintings.

1999-2001 University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Master of Arts (Honours). Contemporary Arts. Painting research, exhibition and exegesis.
1979 Diploma of Education, Sydney Teachers College.
1978 New South Wales Department of Education Teachers’ Scholarship.
1976-78 Alexander Mackie C.A.E., Diploma of Art (Design, Electromedia, Performance Art, Sculpture and Installations).
1974-5 The National Art School. Art Diploma Qualifying (Sculpture, Painting, Objective Drawing, Photography, Graphic Design, Silk-Screen and Block Printing, Design, Media Studies, Weaving).

2025: Finalist, Milburn Art Prize, Brisbane Institute of Art.
2025: Finalist, St. Columba’s Art Prize, Springwood, NSW.
2024: Finalist, Basil Sellers Art Prize, Moruya, NSW.
2024: Selected, Circle Arts display Amsterdam EuropFair.
2023: Finalist, Salon Des Refuses for The Lethbridge Small
Art Prize. 2022: Selected Group Show, Out of The Blue Exhibition at NSW Parliament House. BMCAN.
2019: Group show: Picturesque. Blue Mountains Artists’ Network at Braemar Gallery, Springwood
2019: Group Show, Brunswick Street Art Gallery 50 Squared prize.
2019: Group Show, Gallery 188 BMCAN Group Show: "Art Is the Reason".
2018-19: Blue Mountains Artists' Network Summer Spring and Autumn Shows at Edge Theatre Gallery, Katoomba.
2018: Finalist, Brunswick Small Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery.
2018: Online Finalist for The Lethbridge Art Prize.
2018: Finalist, Bald Archy Travelling Exhibition.
2016 One Artist Show: Lost Bear Gallery, Katoomba: “Groupthink”. Painting.
2001 Tin Sheds Art Gallery, University of Sydney: "Fragmented Values: Compulsive Lives".
1994 Wentworth Falls School of Arts. “Wild & Domesticated”. Paintings.