Gregor Kregar

B. 1972

Gregor Kregar, Digging Gnome 2005, cast lead crystal, 470 x 250 x 160 mm $7500

Gregor Kregar, Girl Gnome 2005, cast lead crystal, 410 x 235 x 170 mm $7500

Gregor Kregar, Large Crystal Pallet 2022, cast lead crystal, 795 x 590 x 100 mm $12 500

Gregor Kregar, Thinker 2, 2022, cast stainless steel, edition of 3, 1200 x 500 x 300 mm

Gregor Kregar, Oh No Gnome, 2022, glazed stoneware, open edition, 550 x 230 x 160mm $2200

Gregor Kregar, Bronze Thinker 1, 2022, cast bronze, edition of 3, 200 x 500 x 300mm

Gregor Kregar, Bronze T Rex, 2022, cast bronze, edition of 5, 900 x 760 x 500 mm

Diplodocus 2025, glazed ceramic metallic open edition, 225 x 120 x 340 mm $850

T Rex 2025, glazed ceramic metallic open edition, 260 x 210 x 140 mm $850

Artist Biography

Gregor Kregar was born in Slovenia, in 1972. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana, in 1996, and his Masters of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, in 1999. He currently lives in Auckland.

Gregor has forged an international reputation – exhibiting widely throughout New Zealand and Australia, as well as in Slovenia, Egypt, and the United States, and completing significant public commissions throughout Australasia. Notable commissions include Reflective Lullaby (Frankie), the nine-metre-tall garden gnome installed on the Peninsula Link Freeway, Melbourne, and Boom Boom, the seven-metre-tall dinosaur sculpture installed in Taupō’s Riverside Park. Gregor’s work is held in many public and private collections, including the Royal Caribbean Art Collection, Christchurch Airport, Te Papa Tongarewa Museum of New Zealand, and Connells Bay Sculpture Park. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including both the Lexus Premier and People’s Choice Awards at Sculpture On The Gulf, in 2013, and has completed residencies in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and China.

Gregor utilises an extensive range of mediums within his practice, from ceramics and glass, through to a variety of metals and plastics. He is renowned for his strong engineering processes and labour-intensive techniques, applying a highly skilled and refined application to his projects. The scale of his work differs vastly between projects, and he has proven adept at translating his vision from small sculptures for personal display, to large-scale public installations. His work explores the ways familiar subjects can be represented in a way that displaces the original meaning and transforms them from their invisible and mundane existence into the focus of our attention.

Biography

Solo Exhibitions

  • Divided we fall, 2021
  • Reflective lullabye – Green, 2015
  • Fragmented Habitat, 2011
  • Garden of liquid geometry, 2008
  • The Pygg Bank Project, 2006
  • I disappear, 2005

Group Exhibitions