Abstract Collage by Huw Griffith
SKU: by Huw GriffithAbstract Collage by Huw Griffith
Collage on board; 1940s Spanish film posters and 19th Century French papers. Griffith depicts the passage of time by layering his materials – fragile ephemera marked by age.
His work has echoes of archival art and Mimmo Rotella; rare documents, advertisements and cinema posters are taken apart, original images are hidden and context is lost.
The emerging image is built out of the remnants, creating a bold, unconventional aesthetic from vestiges of the past.
Griffith describes his technique as the art of painting with paper, a practice he feels has been largely overlooked.
Huw Griffith
Griffith's collages and decollages incorporate antique papers and vintage film posters. Recent commissions have been wide ranging including work for the following clients: Taylor Swift : Chiltern Firehouse : Paul Smith Interiors : Colombo Group : Jamie Oliver : GTC : Hospital Club : Five Rooms : Designers Guild : Whistles : Savoy Group : Filthy MacNastys : Compton & Schuster : Russell Sage : Living Ventures plc : Quintessentially Soho : Alex Proud : Cocomaya : The Blues Kitchen : Gordon Ramsey : Relic : Avoca : Anthropologie : Seventy-b-antiques : Zetters. As interiors editor for the men's quarterly magazine Port, Huw has produced and written interior pieces on the likes of Piero Fornasetti to Joseph Ettedgui.
