Exhibitions

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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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Please join us, Thursday 21 August, 5-7pm for the opening celebration of TDC70 Aotearoa | Typography Shifted.

Organised and supported by creative agency Osborne Shiwan, the annual Type Directors Club awards recognise design excellence and typographic innovation. Selected from over 2,000 entries from 63 countries by a diverse jury of leading designers, the resulting TDC exhibition travels to cities across the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

This, its 70th realisation, marks the return of TDC to AUT, which hosted the first presentation in Tāmaki Makarau. The theme ‘Typography Shifted’ seeks to explore the ever-shifting nature of typography in design, as represented by one hundred projects in the exhibition, including works by Apple, Base Design, Extended Whānau, Foreign Policy Design Group, Landor, Pentagram, Studio Dumbar, The New York Times, and Wolff Olins.

TDC70 Aotearoa is principally sponsored by Osborne Shiwan and Klim Type Foundry. The Gallery wishes to acknowledge all the generous supporters who have made this exhibition possible: