Greg Weight

Greg Weight (born 2 December 1946 in Sydney, Australia) is a notable Australian photographer whose works are held in Australian national and state collections, and appear in significant exhibitions or publications.[1] He was a founding member of the Yellow House artist's collective in 1971.[2] Weight specialises in fine art photography and portraiture. He has received multiple awards and is known for documenting leading figures in the Australian art world.

Weight was the inaugural winner of the Australian Photographic Portrait Prize in 2003[3] and his book Australian Artists, portraits by Greg Weight was published by Chapter and Verse in 2004.[4] His memoir Exposure A photographic memoir was written during a ten year period and released in 2025 by Piper Press. In addition to his work photographing many of Australia's artists and their works since the 1970s, Greg Weight produces landscapes, night skies, interiors, and paintographs - works which are printed with permanent pigment onto canvas and overpainted with oil paint.[5]

He is the only photographer represented by Australian Galleries, since 2004.

References

  1. ^ "National Portrait Gallery of Australia - Greg Weight Collection".
  2. ^ Weight, Greg (2025). Exposure A photographic memoir (1st ed.). Sydney, Australia: Piper Press (published December 2025). ISBN 9781763576117.
  3. ^ Photographic Portrait Prize Winners.
  4. ^ Chapter and Verse "Publishers of Fine Australian Photography."
  5. ^ "Big Tree Notes".


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