28/02/2026
Some words I wrote about Gregory Warren Wilson’s work for at 2026.
Collect is on until Sunday 1st March, so come and see the work for yourselves!
A frame is often, by nature, marginal. It compliments, decorates and adorns, but rarely is it integral to the work of art within. Yet for Gregory Warren Wilson’s works in glass, his deep, bespoke frames are an essential and ubiquitous feature. Each frame serves as an arena, a theatre, in which the two vital qualities of glass, light and colour, can play and interact in novel ways. Layers of hand-cut glass, sometimes as many as six, are arranged so that the light penetrates and refracts in three dimensions, turning the two-dimensional nature of a framed image on its head. One can think of Gregory’s work as a sculpture, the frame an intrinsic part of its architecture.
Gregory is also an award-winning poet, having published six collections to date. Many of his pieces unfold from a fragment of poetry to become abstract, figurative works in their own right. What is striking about Gregory’s pieces is that they retain a narrative quality. Rhythmic yet asymmetrical, moving but still, they are a landscape in which the interplay of colour and light plays out like an event. Light and shade seem to dance as the eye travels, and the darkest colours often glow with the greatest intensity. It is this experience of perspective, of the subjectivity of light and colour, that Gregory wants us to think about. Can the subjective and objective ever be reconciled?
