Known as a backyard crusader for the sticky stuff of legend, Brian Griffith’s monumental scale sculptures are portals for adventure: cardboard box space ships, garbage bin knights, and bathroom caulking astronauts. For his most ambitious solo exhibition to date, Borrowed World, Borrowed Eyes, Griffiths will create an installation of delicate monumentality and bleak fragility, staged with pathos and deadpan humour. Responding to the industrial scale of Tramways main gallery space, Griffiths will showcase a mammoth field of sculptures that become space fillers, insistent perfunctory objects to be skirted around or get lost in. The artist will use the giant space as a foil; a classic double act where the industrial scale is emphasised and its cavernous height is made to press on the sculptures and the audience. The gallery will be transformed into a maze-like space featuring a field of geometric sculptures, each shrouded in worn, painted, patched and stitched tarpaulins. Using minimal means the work aspires to evoke emotions, setting up a sensitive play of fallible shifting surfaces and clarity of form.
This new body of work furthers the artists’ investigations into the narrative potential of objects, and considers modes of storytelling and staging via a restrained visual language and grammar. The sculptures themselves are ‘fabricated found objects’ – hybrids of produced/manufactured units and personal/lovingly handmade surfaces. These canvas coverings form expressive yet understated surfaces reminiscent of patched utility objects and things that have been touched by time. Dressed up in their worn and torn fabric, the objects ask the viewer to look at them, into them, to fill the gaps; they appear rather make-shift forms, temporary, used up, insufficient even. These beautifully dishevelled objects, saggy and low slung attempt to summon up the melancholy, pathos and absurdity of being an object in a shifting world of other contained objects.
View one of Brian Griffith’s most recent exhitbition ‘The Invisible Show‘ at one of London’s most prestogious and cutting edge galleries, Vilma Gold: www.vilmagold.com
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