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‘BILL MURRAY: a story of distance, size, and sincerity’, Brian Griffiths’ current exhibition at BALTIC, has its origins in a photograph stuck on the wall of the artist’s studio.
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Artist Brian Griffiths says it was Hollywood star’s attitude that inspired him to create the show at the Baltic centre for contemporary art.
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The exhibitions you don't want to miss this summer in Manchester, San Diego, Zurich, Moss, New York, Glasgow, San Gimignano.
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The fourth plinth has outlasted any excitement it originally caused. It has become a chore. The current exhibition of hopefuls for the next commission
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While Yinka Shonibare's sculpture of Admiral Nelson's ship still sails proudly on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, the city of London
Read MoreThe exhibitions you don't want to miss this summer in Manchester, San Diego, Zurich, Moss, New York, Glasgow, San Gimignano.
Read MoreThe fourth plinth has outlasted any excitement it originally caused. It has become a chore. The current exhibition of hopefuls for the next commission
Read MoreWhile Yinka Shonibare's sculpture of Admiral Nelson's ship still sails proudly on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square, the city of London
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Luckily, there are no sport-themed proposals among the six shortlisted works for the next fourth plinth commission, one of which will be on display
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Exhibition: Fourth Plinth Exhibition, Crypt Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, until October 31 2010 The Fourth Plinth is causing a stir
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The shortlist of artists for the next commission to go on the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square has been announced.
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Former anthropologist Susan Hiller has spent her life to date excavating cultural perceptions, using as many of the object-, theory- and time-based tools at her disposal.
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A giant Battenberg cake made of bricks and an outsize blue cockerel were revealed today to be among the works battling to take their place in Trafalgar
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Six artists have put models of their visions for the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square on show.
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Contenders given a month to produce models as they vie to occupy high-profile Trafalgar Square spot in 2012
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David Zwirner is presenting Folk Devil, a group exhibition curated by Rodolphe von Hofmannsthal in the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces
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The shortlist of artists for the next commission to go on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square was announced today.
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The British Art Show and Charles Saatchi’s new exhibition tell us where we are – but not where we’re going, says Richard Dorment.
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Public art is rubbish. Starting from that premise is the best possible pre-emptive strike against disappointment. Don’t expect public art
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Contrary to the suggestion of its title, the work in Brian Griffiths's new exhibition at Vilma Gold is far from undetectable to the human eye.
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The shortlist for the next commissioned artwork on Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth was announced yesterday. The artists are: Allora & Calzadilla,
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The six shortlisted proposals for the new Fourth Plinth commission in Trafalgar Square were unveiled at St-Martin-in-the-fields
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Six sculptors from the US, Cuba, Germany, Edinburgh and London will vie to fill the nation’s most high-profile statue spot when the shortlisted
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Ever since Mark Wallinger's sculpture of Jesus Christ clad in a loincloth and crown of thorns was installed on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth,
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Born in 1968 in Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom, Brian Griffiths lives and works in London. Primarily using sculpture and installation, Griffiths exploits the lo-fi artifice of handcrafted soundstages and traveling sideshows to create works that elicit a sense of curiosity and wonderment. In marked contrast to the over-articulated aesthetics of computer-generated special effects, Griffiths’s pieces rely on the smoke and mirrors illusion of hand-painted facades and hollow sculptures blown up to novelty size. His works seem to promise an extraordinary show, ushering viewers around a space as if it were a marvelous spectacle’s imaginary ring. Inspired by a range of cinematic and literary sources, including “Gulliver’s Travels” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, his pieces operate according to a fictive logic, animated by a bygone spirit of exploration and adventure. Griffiths often incorporates found objects weathered by time and travel into his work, setting them on the move once more as props within his collapsible displays, ready to be disassembled and shipped to the next venue once the show has run its course.
Recent solo exhibitions include "Another End” at Vilma Gold, London (2008), “The Only Living” at Greenland Street, A Foundation, Liverpool (2007), "Life is a Laugh”, Platform for Art Commission, at Gloucester Road tube Station, London (2007), “Beneath the Stride of Giants” at Fabrica, Brighton (2007) and “The Man Who Loved Islands” at Arnolfini, Bristol (2007). His work has also been shown as part of “Rude Britannia: British Comic Art” at Tate Britain, London (2010), “British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet”, Hayward Touring Exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London and various other venues throughout the United Kingdom (2010), “Nothing is Impossible”, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh (2010), “Jean Luc, Opera Rock” at CAPC, Bordeaux (2009), “The Brotherhood” at Kunstbunker, Nuremberg (2008), “Brian Griffiths & Sophie von Hellermann” at Vilma Gold project space, Berlin (2006) and “Galleon and Other Stories” at The Saatchi Gallery, London (2004).
Brian Griffiths is represented by Vilma Gold, London and Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
