Greg Bloomfield

Greg Bloomfield lives with his family at Te Horo Beach in the Kapiti Coast, near Wellington, and works out of his studio. Greg has a career in furniture spanning 30 years and has exhibited extensively in the USA and also in France, England, China and New Zealand. His work is in collections across the world, and also being used in homes everyday. Greg’s formal training in furniture making was 15 years working with US furniture movement leaders Gary Knox Bennett in San Francisco and Wendall Castle in Rochester, New York where he gained a reputation as a master craftsman represented by Leo Kaplan Gallery (now Scott Jacobsen Gallery) in New York City. Greg returned to NZ in 1991 and has continued to make furniture for the international market as well as sell to local collectors and people wanting artistic yet functional furniture. Greg has also recently developed an interest in kinetic outdoor sculpture and his first piece was selected for the Shapeshifter exhibition by the New Dowse Gallery in 2009. Greg has presented to many audiences and has been represented in a variety of media including television and print.