Biography

Name: Piers Greville

Brief outline of what you do, art/design wise: I draw and paint pictures, design graphics, make installations and run amok with colours, shapes and words.

When I design, I listen to: New Order, Outrunmusic, David Bowie, Roots Manuva, Dizzee Rascal, MIA, Gil Scott-Heron, Captain Beefheart.

What one thing do you like making most: Paintings of disaster and mayhem, but in a nice way...

What one website do you have to check every morning before you start work: My own crew's website gives me all the mental caffeine I need each day: www.studiozeds.com

Last time I was at the beach was: Last night launching off the rocks at north bondi, there was phosphorescence.

What kind of animal would you least like to be attacked by: The Ebola virus.

Boardshorts should be: Screaming louder than a monkey in a milk bar.

Back in my school days I always liked to draw: Tidal-wave scenes with everyone running away from, surfing down, paddling up, through and under the wave. There were submarines sticking out with hotdog stands on the deck and surf leg ropes tangled around helicopters, deep sea divers on the dried-up seabed looking confused with seagulls all around... I would be there for weeks working on these... then start on another.

What do you love/hate about art: I love that thoughts can spring from an empty canvas, and from those thoughts whole worlds can flourish in an instant.

Best thing about summer is: Boardshorts

One way we can help out the planet is: Be happier with less.

If I could create my work anywhere it would be: In a hut above my secret spot in the snow, in the valley behind Mt Paralyser with steep shady gullies between snow gums. Where no one else has ever ridden.

What’s on your desktop right now: A live satellite image of our little blue planet.

Surfing is: An evolutionary echo. The 'Aquatic ape hypothesis' harks back to watery human evolution, monkeys that learnt to walk upright in water. It's true, look it up.