studio catherine griffiths

Body, Mind, Somehow: The Text Art of Catherine Griffiths
by Gregory O’Brien

Art New Zealand, May 2014, issue #150

The 150th aniversary issue of Art New Zealand features a ‘lovely meditation’ (to quote Carole Anne Meehan, manager of Auckland City Council’s Public Art Team) by Gregory O’Brien, poet, writer and artist, with photographs by Bruce Connew, Simon Devitt, Paul McCredie, and David Read. Projects include public and private text-based installations from the Wellington Writers Walk to AEIOU, A Hillside Intervention to memento :: motif, and the fine books of Bruce Connew.

Available only in hard-copy, Art New Zealand can be purchased from bookshops, found in galleries and on friends’s coffee tables or bookshelves, or online via Zinio.

Contents:

Exhibitions
Edward Hanfling; Malcolm Burgess; Sophie Davis; David Eggleton

Elizabeth Eastmond Alexis Hunter (1948-2014)

Edward Hanfling Creating a Language: A Conversation with Peter Robinson

Ngahuia Te Awekotuku Traditions Endure: Five Maori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery

David Eggleton The Bio-Engineering Unit: Burster, Flipper at Christchurch’s Artbox

Cathy Tuato’o Ross Circling Myths: The Art of Liyen Chong

Matt Plummer Weighing Time: The Waiting Room in Wellington

Nina Seja Refuge & Ritual Trust: Christine Webster’s Therapies

Mark Williams Play On: Towards an Interface of the Visual and Sonic

Gregory O’Brien Body, Mind, Somehow: The Text Art of Catherine Griffiths

Anthony Byrt Fool’s Gold: The Recent Films of Steve Carr

Bronwyn Lloyd Beyond the Narrow Door: Inside the Mysterious World of Bronwynne Cornish

Riemke Ensing Frances Hodgkins in Kapiti: The Field Collection at Mahara Gallery

Kriselle Baker Co-Orbital: New Photographs by Becky Nunes

Don Abbott Class & Portraiture: Two Auckland Studio Photographers

Richard Wolfe Antipodean Bohemian: Reacting to Impressionism in New Zealand

Books

04 writing & critique

Walk With Me
by Stephen Cleland
curatorial essay, »Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me«, Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, Aotearoa NZ, July 2025

Blood lines
by John Warwicker
exhibition review, »Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line«, Eye Blog, UK, June 2025

On the Expanded
by Megan Patty
curatorial essay, »Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line«, The Design Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia, May 2025

The Shapes of Sound
by Ela Egidy
curatorial essay, »Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line«, The Design Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia, May 2025

Read this space
by John L. Walters
book review, »catherine griffiths : SOLO IN [ ] SPACE«, Eye, UK, Spring 2023

Body, Mind, Somehow: The Text Art of Catherine Griffiths

by Gregory O’Brien

Art New Zealand, issue #150, May 2014