Richard Greaves

Biography

Since 1989, Greaves has dedicated himself to the development of a vast architectural environment, located within a forest in the Beauce region of Quebec, on a piece of land bought along with friends in the 1980s, on which he now resides. The work, which is in continuous expansion, is composed of a series of sculptures put together from a multitude of objects salvaged from the scrap heap, as well as constructions — some twenty-odd shacks and shelters — derived from abandoned barns Greaves disassembles and brings back to his site. Revelling in the principles of assymetry and in the absence of right angles, always seemingly on the point of imminent collapse, Greaves' "anarchitectural" constructions stand in open defiance of the laws of gravity and physics.