Studio 11, Gertrude Contemporary
21-31 High St, Preston VIC 3072
info@josephlgriffiths.com
@instagram

CV - PDF

© Copyright, J.L.Griffiths 2020.

Joseph Griffiths explores urbanisation as a form of sculpture. His research-based projects respond to specific sites through drawing, printmaking, sculpture, installation, video and interventions in public space. He studies the transformations of local materials, landscapes and watercourses that have shaped the cities where he lives and works. He approaches these histories from the ground, learning from people and places first-hand. These relationships reveal the social context and complexity underlying the ruins, edgelands and infrastructures he’s drawn to. His recent research has traced the circulation of water through cities, understanding how water infrastructures entwine broader ecosystems, and mapping the impacts of urbanisation on the water-cycle. Groundwater contamination in urban aquifers, brutalist engineering of creeks, and the complex history of fountains have inspired recent artworks. He lives and works on Wurundjeri Country in Melbourne, Australia.

b. 1984 Melbourne AU
MFA - Monash University Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, 2018
BFA - Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2007.

Joseph is currently a studio artist at Gertrude Contemporary. In 2018 he completed a Master of Fine Art at Monash University Faculty of Art Design & Architecture, under the supervision of Callum Morton and Nicholas Mangan. He graduated from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007, and has exhibited nationally and internationally including MACRO Testaccio (Rome 2016), Villa Medicis (Rome), Centrum (Berlin 2016), The British School at Rome (Rome 2016), Accademia di Romania (Rome 2016), 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014), Station Gallery (Melbourne 2014), Esbjerg Kunstmuseum (Denmark 2013), DDessin13 Contemporary Drawing Fair (Paris 2013), and Next Wave Festival (Melbourne (2012). He has undertaken residencies in Sydney, Rome, Copenhagen, Paris, Mauritius, and regional France. His works are held in private collections in Australia and France and by Esbjerg Kunstmuseum in Denmark.