Exhibitions

_{Image: Animation based on Catherine Griffiths, Drawings for Light Weight O #1-6, 2012/ 2018, commissioned by Auckland Public Art | He Kohinga Toi for Auckland Council.}

Please join us, Tuesday 29 July, 5 - 7pm for the opening celebration of Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me, a solo exhibition by designer and artist Catherine Griffiths.

Griffiths’ evocative typographic practice spans a vast range of fields and contexts, including sculpture, gallery-based installation, video, photography, architecture, and activism. In each situation, she retains an extraordinary agency to self-determine her treatment of type, be it in choosing to work in public or private spaces, or in determining whether to prioritise legibility or explore the abstract and material potentiality of letterforms.

Griffiths has practised internationally for over four decades, including exhibiting in Australia, Chile, France, the USA, China, South Korea, and Aotearoa. Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me builds on two prior surveys of Griffiths' practice, the 2019 exhibition/ publication SOLO IN [ ] SPACE, curated by Zhihua Duan (The Space Gallery/ Pocca publishing, Shanghai, 2019), and the recent exhibition Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line, curated by Ela Egidy and Megan Patty (The Design Gallery, University of Melbourne, 2025), which tours in 2026. Griffiths lives in Karekare, West Auckland, and also spends time intermittently in Paris.

For further information, please get in touch with the Gallery: ngutukaka@aut.ac.nz

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_{Installation view: Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me, 30 Jul 2025 - 5 Sep 2025. Photo by Sam Hartnett}

Please join us next Thursday evening for the opening of Type Here 2: An Aotearoa Poster Exhibition. The second in a series of exhibitions developed in partnership with Osborne Shiwan, Type Here is an Aotearoa poster competition focusing on contemporary typography.

This years’ realisation of Type Here is themed ‘Kiwi Culchur’ and received 149 entries from artists and designers across the country. The exhibition presents the resulting 43 finalists who represent a wide gamut of typographic work - from expressions of aroha to social commentary. The 2025 judges for Type Here are Hamish Childs, Emma Hickey, Kaan Hiini (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Pākehā), Sarah Maxey, and international judge Bráulio Amado.

The Gallery wishes to acknowledge the generous supporters who have made this exhibition possible: