KATHERINE GRIFFITHS SOLO EXHIBITION
People and Places Powering Australia's Future
Australia's energy transformation is underway, bringing change to communities and landscapes across the country. The Hunter and Gladstone region has always played a critical role as an economic powerhouse for the nation and is now at the forefront of the clean energy revolution. This exhibition celebrates the people and places leading the charge across the regions, bringing to life the human side of the transformation as well as showcasing the great Australian landscapes on which it is taking place.
People & Places Powering Australia's Future - Hunter Region
Exhibition details:
• Dates: Wednesday, November 13 to Friday, November 29, 2024
• Opening times: Monday-Saturday, 9-5pm
• Location: McLarty Room, Shortland Building, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan
• Cost: Free to enter
• Dates: Wednesday, November 13 to Friday, November 29, 2024
• Opening times: Monday-Saturday, 9-5pm
• Location: McLarty Room, Shortland Building, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan
• Cost: Free to enter
People & Places Powering Australia's Future - Gladstone Region
Exhibition details:
• Dates: Tuesday November 12 to Saturday November 30, 2024
• Opening times: Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm
• Location: Gladstone City Library 39 Goondoon Street Gladstone, QLD
• Cost: Free to enter
• Dates: Tuesday November 12 to Saturday November 30, 2024
• Opening times: Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm
• Location: Gladstone City Library 39 Goondoon Street Gladstone, QLD
• Cost: Free to enter
HeadOn International Photography Award Finalist & Mono Awards Top 40 Finalist
Katherine Griffiths has been named a finalist in the HeadOn International Photography Awards 2024 and The Mono Awards 2024 for her landscape image Urban Tapestry.
Title: Urban Tapestry
Artist statement:
At first glance, this picture has the traits of an old film strip with a story printed along the length. But after a moment, the reality of Tak Nga Court public housing becomes clear, and with it an incredible sense of perspective. This image captures more than just the stark geometry of Hong Kong apartment blocks - it reveals a mosaic of human existence. A loan bicycle, fluttering laundry, and potted plants tell a silent story of life within confined spaces, painting, a poignant picture of the search for individuality in the towering closeness of urban living
2019 Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize Semi Finalist
Title: A simple love
Artist statement:
When people admire Danling's haircut she always says proudly ‘Anett cuts my hair!'.
When people admire Danling's haircut she always says proudly ‘Anett cuts my hair!'.
Nestled in the thick of inner Sydney apartment living where space is a commodity, Anett trims Danling's hair under a Japanese Maple tree with their cat Colour observing.
Anett can be impatient, but a different person when cutting Danling’s hair. She cuts with careful consideration and enjoys the experience - relating it to cutting her doll’s hair when she was little. Most of the time her bowl cut isn't straight but Danling doesn't care, she loves the imperfection. They call their 5-year relationship ‘a simple love’.
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS 2018
High Commended awarded to Katherine Griffiths
Title: Ebony
Artist statement:
The most memorable portraits are ones where the idiosyncratic and truthful nature of the subjects is exposed.
The most memorable portraits are ones where the idiosyncratic and truthful nature of the subjects is exposed.
After photographing Ebony Vagulans I began to wonder how actors find truth in such a temporal art form. I asked Ebony what performance means to her and she replied:
“It’s our inconsistencies which are truly telling and inspirational. It made me stop chasing perfection and start chasing the mess. When I perform I feel cleansed. I wasn’t raised religious but use theatre to find profound stories and moral debates to culturally draw from. The process has become a spiritual one for me.”
NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE 2016
People's Choice selection
National Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 - Olga & her blanket
In every sense of the word, Olga Horak OAM is a Survivor. Despite living through the Holocaust, she is the epitome of elegance and style, photographed in one of the many dresses she has designed and made for herself, Olga maintains that age is no excuse to stop looking your best. She holds in her hands a blanket that was woven using the hair of Jewish prisoners who had their heads shaven as they entered Auschwitz. The blanket covered Olga’s skeletal frame on the day of liberation. The contrast between the two garments – and the two lives is a striking one.
JOSEPHINE ULRICK & WIN SCHUBERT PHOTOGRAPHYAWARD 2015
Title: Betty, 2014
Artist Statement:
In 1951 during a cold Canberra winter, my grandmother Betty chose a rich red carpet
for the master bedroom to make the room feel warmer. Over the next 61 years, Betty
and her husband Harry raised a family in a home in which she still lives today.
Where Harry’s bed used to be now sits a bedside table, the symmetry of the room
thrown off; an unbalance conveyed in Betty’s pose.
Despite moments of fragility and loneliness since his death two years ago, she is
discovering a new sense of self – a resolve and wisdom reflected in her gaze.
for the master bedroom to make the room feel warmer. Over the next 61 years, Betty
and her husband Harry raised a family in a home in which she still lives today.
Where Harry’s bed used to be now sits a bedside table, the symmetry of the room
thrown off; an unbalance conveyed in Betty’s pose.
Despite moments of fragility and loneliness since his death two years ago, she is
discovering a new sense of self – a resolve and wisdom reflected in her gaze.
Capture Magazine's TOP EMERGING ART PHOTOGRAPHER
Katherine Griffiths named top emerging art photographer in Capture Magazine The Annual which featured her self portrait 'Still' (2014). This portrait featured in the Canberra exhibition Blaze 8 at
CANBERRA CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE in 2014.
Title: Still, 2014
Artist Statement:
Using the camera to document her emotional journey, photographer Katherine Griffiths tells her story through a cinematic lens that plays with the subconscious mind, dream-like states and their relationship with lived experience. The narrative potential of these images is open for interpretation by the viewer. Often depicting a state of suspension and limbo the viewer is invited into photographs that hold an element of mystery. Griffiths’ constructs a visual interpretation of how her dreams walk the fineline of what is familiar vs the fear of the unknown. Through her use of imagery to provoke the senses and entice the memory, the surreal is presented.
NATIONAL ARTISTS' SELF PORTRAIT PRIZE 2013
KATHERINE GRIFFITHS INVITED ARTIST
Title: Hyper Aware, 2013
Artist Statement:
We have never had so much control over our own image as we do today.Hyper Aware is a self-portrait that explores the ability to construct, manipulate and influence the concept of identity. Through social media, we have access to the lives of others. Pictures, posts and background information allow viewers to make quick judgements and construct a notion of one’s identity. These platforms allow individuals to pick, choose and manipulate their information. This heightened sense of control can result in a hyperawareness of the self and ambiguity for the viewer. These elements do not always work in harmony and one’s sense of self can get lost in translation. The portrait Hyper Aware challenges the traditional conventions of portraiture by removing the face yet still presenting the illusion of gaze, expression and mood. The real becomes surreal and the surreal becomes a natural manipulation.
KATHERINE GRIFFITHS Winner of the 2013 Queensland Centre of Photography YOUNGBLOOD award
