Catherine Griffiths / Bruce Connew

Catherine Griffiths and Bruce Connew are two artists and makers who independently and consistently examine realms of social, political and cultural concerns through their respective practices.

Improvisation is critical to Griffiths’ interdisciplinary practice which shifts between typography and language-based works, occasional writing and activation through exhibition and self-publishing, and commissioned artworks and installations in public and private spaces, architectural and landscape.

Connew's central projects have been presented as solo exhibitions in public art galleries across Aotearoa New Zealand [since the 1970s] with several bodies held in Australian collections, and often as artist book first, a variation on the photobook genre. The artist states, ʻmy work does not come from orderly research. An idea emerges from an assortment of simmering propositions, components of things yet to be fashioned. With these elements in hand, I set off in pursuit of other evidence from which to construct meaning.’

The self-published artist book is an art platform to present an idea. Griffiths and Connew are the artists and the makers. They expect the artist book to be an object itself, its materiality and typographic resolution a requisite part of the content. For 2025, new works presented include editioned lithographs and silkscreen prints, photographs, and vintage silver-gelatin prints from the archive.