{"id":3278521,"date":"2025-03-12T10:25:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T13:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?p=3278521"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T19:14:49","slug":"interview-greg-davies-chronos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-greg-davies-chronos","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Greg Davies, &#8220;Chronos&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Sometimes, it takes beautifully-made art to show us the terrible things we might not know.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"3278523\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-greg-davies-chronos\/attachment\/lunchbox2025gregdavies-1\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1400,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1-800x800.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3278523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>My guest today is <strong>Greg Davies<\/strong>, a painter, art historian, educator and administrator. His collection <strong><em>Chronos<\/em><\/strong> is part of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/artcentre\/exhibitions\/world-water-day.html\">UNB Art Centre <em>World Water Day<\/em><\/a> showing, running from March 7 to May 2. He joins me to talk about how he came to paint portraits of extinct and perishing animals, the intent and emotion behind the project, and the choice of style to convey the point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Chronos<\/em> by Greg Davies is featured alongside works by Noah Poirier and Kyle Goguen in the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unb.ca\/artcentre\/exhibitions\/world-water-day.html\">World Water Day<\/a><\/em> exhibition which opens on March 7 and runs to May 2 at the UNB Art Centre&#8217;s galleries in the Memorial Hall building on UNB campus. <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7043\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7043','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3278521-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is Greg Davies, a painter, art historian, educator and administrator. His collection Chronos is part of the 2025 UNB Art Centre World Water Day showing, running from March 7 to May 2. <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7044\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('7044','https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=3278521-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/podcast\/general\/Lunchbox\/2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"2025-03-03%20Greg%20Davies%20-%20Chronos.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player--><p><a class=\"excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/specialty\/lunchbox\/interview-greg-davies-chronos\">Read more...<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3278523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2128,587,3162,13694,491],"class_list":["post-3278521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lunchbox","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-environment","tag-exhbition","tag-interview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Lunchbox2025GregDavies-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278572,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278521\/revisions\/3278572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3278523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chsrfm.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}