‘Adapting to the circumstances we’re in seems pertinent now more than ever in my life. There is a narrative that runs throughout my work which can only be mine. Inevitably there are political references; to my time in Jamaica and my experience of living in a newly emerged post-colonial, highly polarised, often dangerous country; to the current situation that affects all our lives. I hope there are no easy conclusions to be made…. indecision is the mother of invention.
There is an element of retrospection to the work on show here at elysium gallery, as a way of introducing myself’.
Gareth Griffith grew up in Caernarfon, in North Wales, and has lived a short distance from there in Mynydd Llandygai, near Bangor, for over 40 years. He studied at Liverpool College of Art in the early 1960s and spent most of his working life as an art teacher. He is represented in the collections of Amgueddfa Cymru / National Museum Wales, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the British Arts Council Collection.
Notable exhibitions in Wales include the 2019 solo touring exhibition ‘Trelar // Trailer‘ curated by Oriel Davies, the show toured to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham and Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen.
Gareth was also the joint winner of the 2022 Beep Painting Biennial.