• Sketch of two cherubs with wings, one with a distorted face, art style appears rough and unfinished.

    Attic

    Attic is a metaphorical space, signifying journey, shelter, and memory. This installation re-visits the 2001 site-specific Attic Project.

  • Charcoal drawing depicting a barren landscape with a river and ancient stone structures, creating a mysterious, desolate atmosphere.

    Archaeology of Place

    Personal, political, and poetic, Greg’s works are meditations on the fluidity of time, on memory, place and being – on how the past functions in the present.

  • A person holding a plate with a fish, with a harbor and boats in the background.

    Vorti-Scope

    Standing inside the space of the camera chamber, the viewer becomes an ‘interiorized observer to an exterior world.’ The ebb and flow of river and humanity are revealed in real-time views.

  • Abstract painting depicting a human figure kneeling in front of a column inside a dimly lit, circular room with curved steps. The artwork uses dark, earthy tones with expressive brushstrokes.

    Figures and Follies

    His work is postmodern mainly because it underscores the limits of modernist utopianism, and because it consciously revives an earlier allegorical style.

  • A rustic attic space with wooden floors, featuring a quote by Gaston Bachelard about attic stairs written on the wall. The wall shows signs of wear and an unfinished drawing.

    Attic Project

    Through a small window, we can see the interior of an attic, walls covered in graffiti and drawings. This provides us with an almost voyeuristic experience; we’ re invited to snoop and see what we can in this interior space.

  • Black and white sketch of a cage with vertical bars, viewed from a low angle.

    Concrete

    There is something high modernist about these works, a seriousness that is levelled by a certain romanticism, an almost lyrical approach that undercuts the works’ initial coldness.

  • Virtus

    Juxtaposing classical and modern myths, the works idealize an indomitable human physique, girdling the earth via railroads and freeways.

  • Painting of a large, circular hole surrounded by layers of rock, with a tree growing on the edge and greenery in the background.

    Mashup

    Mashups represent a collision of ancient and contemporary structural fragments, forms and places.

Greg Charlton is a Canadian visual artist exploring time, place, and transformation. 

His work draws on architecture and ruins as metaphors that navigate these themes, blending historical references with contemporary contexts.

 Using drawing, painting, and site-specific sculpture, Greg's art connects the past and present, encouraging reflection on our relationship between memory and change.

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