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To Leave, There is no Way
55cm x 70cm x 2cm
Mixed Media
Acrylic On Paper
Framed
£500.00
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Artist profile
EDUCATION:
2003 – 2005: Distinction in Masters of Fine Art (MFA International Practice) Kent Institute of Art and Design, KIAD (Canterbury)
2001 – 2003: BA First Class (Hons) Degree in Visual Communication (Illustration) Kent Institute of Art and Design, KIAD (Maidstone)
2000 – 2001: BTEC Foundation in Art & Design, Kent Institute of Art and Design, KIAD (Maidstone)
2007 Exhibitions:
‘Flourish’; Newham, London. ‘Another Roadside Attraction’; Leonard Street, London. ‘Replenish’; Saltburn Artists Projects, Saltburn-by-the-Sea. ‘Batteries Not Included’; Shrewsbury Art Gallery, Shrewsbury. ‘Arts Fest’; Birmingham. ‘Francis Burrows Gallery’; Custard Factory, Birmingham. ‘irk’ magazine (Spring). ‘Claire Galleries’; Birmingham. ‘The Hackwood Art Festival’; Basingstoke. ‘Spontaneous Combustion2’; St Ives, Cornwall. ‘Anytown’; Mascalls Gallery, Paddock Wood, Kent. ‘SEOS’; Maidstone, Kent. ‘Appledore Arts Festival Short Film Programme’; Appledore, Kent. ‘BOX’; Rep Theatre, Birmingham. ‘Art and the City’; Cornwall Street, Cambers, Birmingham. ‘Art of Imagination’; The Mall Gallery, London. ‘Iconic’; Central Library, Birmingham. ‘Spring Fair’; St. Francis Hall & Old School Building; Maidstone. ‘Liberty Gallery’; Kings Hill, Kent.
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About my work
http://craiggriffin.110mb.com
The interdisciplinary nature of my work combines interests in architecture, calligraphy, graphics, illustration, digital and fine arts within the framework of ‘the sublime’; a quasi-religious experience of the limitless immensity in nature and abstraction. I see my work focusing on architecture and figures behind which complicated abstract forms visualize themes such as ruin and the fragmentation of memory. I mostly work on paper, using acrylic based paints and general mixed media processes which are sometimes then threaded through a series of digital and printmaking processes.
I am working towards achieving emotions reminiscent of those captured by Casper David Friedrich and the late work of the New York abstract painter Mark Rothko. The parallels between these artists, in their search for the sublime, is the basis of my own painting; capturing a sense of the obscure, isolation, feeling of melancholy and human powerlessness against the ominous forces of nature and the fleeting enviroment of the present. Influences also include Stanley Donwood, Ralph Steadman, Koyaanisqatsi, Anslem Kiefer, Grant Gee, Tchocky & Krzystof Kieslowski.
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