Steven Gregory

Description

At 5m tall the awe-inspiring size of the piece is countered by it's darkly comic subject matter. Gregory's work often posses an acerbic wit which plays upon one's childish sensibilities and, very often, the nature of postmodernity. Despite the subject's lack of facial features, its earnest expression can still be understood by way of its body language. The ability to create credible monumental sculpture that is suffused with comedy is no mean feat and is seldom realised on this scale.

As Damien Hirst has said of Gregory, 'in these visually bombarding [and] morally conflicting times, seemingly effortlessly he creates art that prods, and pokes, ignores and strokes and slaps us into submission.' Unnervingly humorous and wonderfully kitsch, 'One of us on Tricycle' does just this...