studio catherine griffiths

photographs / Bruce Connew

‘Installation with mirror and line’ working with the circle form, a mirror ‘O’ (the mirror belonged to my late mother-in-law) which references an unbuilt mirror work awaiting suspension in a downtown city street, not far from the exhibition site, this response to Transitionalfieldwork – 36.8670511, 174.7597644 (with fluorescent builder’s line from my construction kit) considers the vertical shift between the now, past and future.

/ Catherine Griffiths, 2016

studio test and drawings for installation / Catherine Griffiths, 2016

top: Rebecca Steedman + David Cowlard, Transitionalfieldwork (booklet)
Oliver Neuland, SlimRide (video) / Transitionalfieldwork (poster)
Caroline Powley, Designated surface (drawings)

middle: Ruth Watson, Soon-to-be-lost addresses (boxed) / O.N., SlimRide (video)
Yolunda Hickman, Buildings (carpet) / Lucky Bulldozer, Shaddock Street (video)
C.P., Designated surface (drawing) / C.G., Installation with mirror and line

bottom centre + right: R.S. + D.C., Transitionalfieldwork (posters, rocks, map, sound)

Catherine Griffiths, 2016

03 other in(ter)ventions

TypeSHED11
an international typography symposium, Wellington, NZ

typ gr ph c
a series of compact workshops, Karekare, NZ

installations, exhibitions

Iterations/Alterations
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 2025, Aotearoa NZ

What is my threshold now?
Manifesto vs Manifest, PLATES #1, 2024, New York, USA

7/7, 14 views
Te Tuhi Project Wall, 2023, Aotearoa NZ

Self-preservation
Offering It Up, Adam Art Gallery, 2023, Aotearoa NZ

The Phone Book: Club de Conversation (2012): deconstructed (2019), suspended (2022)
Counterparts // Part one: Where To From Here?, No Vacancy, 2022, Naarm Melbourne AU

catherine griffiths : SOLO IN [ ] SPACE
The Space Gallery, 2019, Shanghai, CHINA

Work/Space
Shanghai Art and Design Exhibition, 2017, CHINA

A whakapapa, two lines of women, an installation drawing
All Lines Converge, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 2016, Aotearoa NZ

Installation with mirror and line
transitionalfieldwork, an exhibition, 2016, Aotearoa NZ

only U know ...
collaboration, Lela Jacobs AW17 Auckland, and SS17 Paris collection, Aotearoa NZ + FR

Constructed/Projected
installation, Typojanchi 2015, 4th International Typography Biennale, Seoul, KR

The Tuwhare Poster Project
fund-raiser for the Hone Tuwhare Trust Writers Residency, Aotearoa NZ

memento :: motif
Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Alzheimer, Valparaíso, Chile

The Phone Book
a maquette, for the Club de Conversation project, Aotearoa NZ

Club de Conversation at S/F with Dino Chai, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ

Club de Conversation: Keyhole Series and Dials
rug series, Dilana Workshop, Aotearoa NZ

Sound Tracks
installation, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Aotearoa NZ

The Jets
short film, Paris, France

posters, protest, statements

The Best Design Awards
three posters, 2018, Aotearoa NZ

Labour of Love
another word-play poster, 2018, Aotearoa NZ

W in black
drawings in progress, 2017, Aotearoa NZ/FR

The Alphabet
front page takeover of the Sentinel & Enterprise newspaper for 26 days, Fitchburg, USA

The Brexit Series
a word-play poster series in response to Brexit, Aotearoa NZ

Raising the Flag
contemplative, suggestive — design unravelled, Aotearoa NZ

Protest Vessel 1/2 PRICE
a collaboration with ceramic artist Raewyn Atkinson, Aotearoa NZ

Installation with mirror and line

2016

Transitionalfieldwork – 36.8670511, 174.7597644, a group exhibition

‘Installation with mirror and line’ ... my response to Transitionalfieldwork, DEMO artspace, 21 Shaddock Street, Auckland, 6–9 December 2016

Curated by Rebecca Steedman and David Cowlard, Transitionalfieldwork – 36.8670511, 174.7597644 invited responses to a territory flagged for infrastructural development. Respondents /researchers were given 6-weeks to imagine; re-imagine; map or record an archive of the existing landscape, or propose alternate futures as the starting point for an ongoing enquiry into our changing geo-spatial relations.

David Cowlard
Catherine Griffiths
Yolunda Hickman
LuckyBulldozer
Oliver Neuland
Caroline Powley
Nick Spratt
Rebecca Steedman
Ruth Watson

“The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.” – Italo Calvino, ‘Invisible Cities’