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»What is my threshold now?« archive of collected hair [artist’s own], steel box, light, shadows cast, numbered paper packets, exposed. (2024)
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This photo-image work is an extension of »Self-preservation« (2022), #108 and archive of hair #001-142, one of 22 works presented in the vitrine component of Sophia Smolenski’s ‘Offering It Up’ (2023) at Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery.
Made as a contribution to Manifesto vs Manifest, the first issue of PLATES, an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism, curated and produced by Related Department and Gabriel Melcher, published by Page Bureau:
“Each issue dives into a specific topic that is pertinent to the design reality we live in, presented and archived in a series of image and textual plates in an organic, iterative and evolving format. In its first iteration, PLATES presents collective voices of practitioners situated along overlaps or cracks between disciplines to rethink the subject “Manifesto vs. Manifest” in relation to their practice through this iterative lens. The manifesto as a category of writing feels fixed and loaded, while contemporary design operates on txhe intersection of many manifestos, sensationalism in media, technological hype, identity, geopolitics, social activism, inclusivity and misalignment, alt texts, screenshots, fragmented truth, psychic readings on TikTok, and endless advertisements everyday everywhere. Iteration 1 manifests a version of each contributor and/or their practice in this convoluted and cacophonous context, shaped for any now or any future.” — Scarlett Meng, Gabriel Melcher
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Iterations/Alterations, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, 2025 / photo: Jinki Cambronero
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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
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
Griffith University Art Museum, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
24 February — 16 May 2026
Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa NZ
30 July — 24 October 2025
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
The Design Gallery, University of Melbourne, Naarm, Australia
19 May — 27 June 2025
Iterations/Alterations
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Chapter 1, Aotearoa NZ
15 February — 29 March 2025 [extended to Chapter 2]
What is my threshold now?
Manifesto vs Manifest, PLATES #1, 2024, New York, USA
7/7, 14 views
Te Tuhi Project Wall, Aotearoa NZ
20 August – 22 October 2023
Self-preservation
Offering It Up, Adam Art Gallery, Aotearoa NZ
24 August —
29 October 2023
The Phone Book: Club de Conversation (2012): deconstructed (2019), suspended (2022)
Counterparts // Part one: Where To From Here?, No Vacancy, Naarm Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
12 – 31 July 2022
catherine griffiths : SOLO IN [ ] SPACE
The Space Gallery, Shanghai, CHINA
13 October – 1 December 2019
Work/Space
Shanghai Art and Design Exhibition, CHINA
3 – 13 December 2017
A whakapapa, two lines of women, an installation drawing
All Lines Converge, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Aotearoa NZ
2016
Installation with mirror and line
transitionalfieldwork, an exhibition, Aotearoa NZ
2016
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
November 2015
The Tuwhare Poster Project
fund-raiser for the Hone Tuwhare Trust Writers Residency, Aotearoa NZ
2014
memento :: motif
Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Alzheimer, Valparaíso, Chile
23 September — 23 August 2012
The Phone Book
a maquette, for the Club de Conversation project, Aotearoa NZ
2012
Club de Conversation at S/F with Dino Chai, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ
14 July – 18 August 2012
Club de Conversation: Keyhole Series and Dials
rug series, Dilana Workshop, Aotearoa NZ
June — July 2012
Sound Tracks
installation, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Aotearoa NZ
2011
The Jets
short film, Paris, France
2010
posters, protest, statements
SHREDDED
[LUXON QUOTES] RUBBISH COLLECTION, six [type specimen] posters, 2026, Aotearoa NZ
The Best Design Awards
three [type specimen] 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 [type specimen] 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
What is my threshold now?
Manifesto vs Manifest, PLATES #1, 2024, New York, USA
Originally made as a contribution to Manifesto vs Manifest, the first issue of PLATES, an editorial and curatorial response to contemporary design practice and criticism, curated and produced by Related Department and Gabriel Melcher, published by Page Bureau (2024).
Lithograph, Hahnemühle Copperplate 300gsm, 560 x 760mm (unframed), edition of 10 (2025).
Printer: John Putaseri, APS
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