Greta Umbers is an artist born and currently based in Aotearoa (New Zealand).
Umbers has worked across disciplines (including photography, printmaking, film, writing, and curation) though her artistic practice has since evolved to focus primarily on drawing. Through this practice, she continues to develop a growing body of work engaging with related themes of transience, loss, and belonging.
Informed by, yet extending beyond the tradition of figuration, her intricate drawings are poetic reflections of impermanence. These emotional and atmospheric impressions examine the soft border between devastation and repair, posing the question - How do we continue to rebuild on what we know to be unstable ground?
Umbers was selected as a finalist in the 2022 and 2023 Parkin Drawing Prize. She has also held solo exhibitions, and participated in and co-curated group shows in New Zealand and Australia. Most recently she and Megan Murphy held a duo exhibition ‘16:34 | 16:35’ at Railway Street Studios in 2022.
b. 1984 - Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland), Aotearoa.