"Greg Cox uses readymade objects such as furniture, crates and trolleys, which are characteristically discarded and worn, and indicative of different periods of manufacture. Through use of colour laminates and dissection he transforms these once functional domestic objects into minimal artworks and creates a tension between the familiarity of the wooden surface and the flat smooth space of the laminate. Individual fragments of a sideboard, strewn in the space, are left for us to re-compose and make sense of."
Text from 'Drunken Boat', Colony Gallery
"With a seemingly effortless sleight of hand, the anatomical slicing of Greg Cox’s chest of drawers [44 kgs of dresser, 2007] creates component pieces forming a precise theoretical unity. Swathes of Formica resolutely deny access into the furniture’s immaculately reworked fuselage whilst materially placing a burnished mirrored surface at the capped points of entry. Cox’s work plots planar measurements from a spatial urban survey and intertwines these with the carpentry of the found object. A swoop into an almanac of imagined inferences, tracing the historic intersected minutiae held within this depository of accumulated household reasoning."
Colin Matthews, review of 'Glass of Broccoli' (for www.myvillage.com), Terrace Gallery.
"By far the most successful works are those that have a simple mystery to them; they stop you, challenge you to understand what is going on, and thereby snatch the attention that most other pieces just don't get. Greg Cox, for example, presents an object made from wood and white Formica [trolley, 2006] that seems to be a chopped-off section of a desk... or is it half a drawer? Or maybe part of a chair? Actually, its a complete sculpture; a quiet but oddly compelling object."
David Barret, review of 'Everything Must Go' (from Art Monthly, May '06), VTO gallery
