Sylvia Griffin is a multi-discipline contemporary artist with a practice ranging across sculpture, installation, textiles, video and photography. Her work is grounded in process-based experimentation and materiality. The relevance of time, memory and ritual are important aspects to this work.
Initially influenced by the Holocaust and the affect it has had on her family and others, her work addresses trauma, memory and history. More recently, her practice has focused on how art can interpret the histories, memories and cultural layers embedded in specific sites. Through research, material investigation and close engagement with contested sites she explores the relationships between people, place and history. Much of this work has been generated through artist residencies both nationally and internationally including in Gothenburg, Sweden, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, and most recently in Berlin, Germany.
Sylvia Griffin lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She holds a PhD from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney and has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions, awards and prizes both nationally and internationally. She has received various commendations, grants and scholarships, was the winner of the 2013 Willoughby Sculpture Prize, Drawing Prize winner of the 2022 North Sydney Art Prize, and has been shortlisted for several national awards.
Sylvia Griffin
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