Griffiths’ work explores issues around industry, design and mass production and its impact upon our sense of self and our environment.
Her work borrows forms and structures from the world of product and industrial design, rebuilding them in clay and combining them with layers of disruptive glaze or sculptural detail, drawing ideas from science fiction and poetry.
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In 2022-23 Griffiths was artist in residence at The Red House, Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears' former home in Suffolk. She spent this time exploring nearby Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station and the surrounding coastal environment. Since this time she has been making ceramic sculptures that imagine a future landscape in which remnants of the nuclear power industry have been dredged from the North Sea.
Fragmentary industrial forms appear to collide, ravaged by geological forces and encrusted with natural and toxic sediments.
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Griffiths builds the precise and geometric forms using slabs, before sawing or breaking them apart and combining them with ‘debris’ – made using molds and casts from the Suffolk shoreline, from ceramic extrusions or broken fragments. The use of sculptural glazes, and diverse firing temperatures further develops the rich and tactile surfaces.
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Education
Royal College of Art (2009 – 2011) MA Sculpture
University College Falmouth (2005-2008) BA (HONS) Fine Art FIRST CLASS
Erasmus European Exchange Studies, NABA, Milan (2007)
University College Falmouth (2004 -2005) Art and Design Foundation Diploma
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Awards
British Ceramic Biennial 2023 AWARD selected artist
The Red House Residency Winner, supported by The Royal Society of Sculptors and Britten Pears Arts (2022)
Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary Award Winner (2012)
BUILD Residency at Cornwall College Camborne (2009)
Associate Residency at Spike Island, Bristol (2008)
Selected Exhibitions
2025
In Their Space, Royal Society of Sculptors, London
Bow Open: Connections, The Nunnery Gallery, London
2024
Artist of the Day Archive Show, Flowers Gallery, London
In Their Space, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
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2023
British Ceramic Biennial AWARD exhibition, Stoke-on-Trent
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
Southwark Park Gallery Open Show, London
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2022
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
Drawing Boundaries, Gerald Moore Gallery, London
ME2U: A Collective Manifesto, The Nunnery Gallery, London
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2021
Aboutface: regroup, reorganise, reimagine, The Nunnery Gallery, London
HARDWARE (solo show), Camberwell Superstore (part of Camberwell Arts Festival 2021), London
The Kiln Rooms Summer Show, London
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2020
Where we Work, Freelands Foundation, London
Quarantzine 03 and Quarantzine 04, Online
Wells Art Contemporary, Wells Cathedral, and Online
Tooling up, Standing by (solo show), Zetter Hotel, London
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2019
RIC Visual Arts Exhibition, Sun Pier House, Chatham
Kiln Rooms Members Show, The Kiln Rooms, London
2017
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
2016
Dulwich Artist’s Open House, London
RIBA constructing Communities, Peckham Levels, London
Kiln Room Members show, The Kiln Rooms, London
2014
Art and Design PGCE Exhibition, Institute of Education, London
2013
Arcadia Missa Open, Arcadia Missa, London
2012
RBS Bursary Award Exhibition, Royal British Society of Sculptors, London
Plot, Galleries Goldstein at Goodhood, London
Preposterous, La Scatola Gallery, London
Contemporary Visions: Beers Lambert 3rd Annual Group Exhibition
Beers Lambert, London
The Pleasure Principle, Hoxton Art Gallery, London
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Here’s Where the Living is, Bethnal Green Library, London
2011
A Future Pump House: Ideas, Thoughts and Plans, Pump House Gallery, London
With The Titanic to The Moon, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
SHOW RCA 2011, Royal College of Art, London
Creekside Open 2011 (selected by Phyllida Barlow), APT, London
Solo Show: Artist of the Day (selected by Alison Wilding), Flowers Gallery, London
2010
Desire is a Golden Carrot, The Albion, London
Exeter Contemporary Open 2010, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Agitprop!, Project Space 11, Plymouth
The Purpose of Drawing, Portland Square Cube 3 Gallery, Plymouth
Lunch is For Wimps, Triumph Furniture Showroom, London
Embrace, Edinburgh College of Art Sculpture Court, Scotland
2009
Solo Show: Slipping Contours, The Proctor Gallery, Cornwall