Erin Griffiths
she/her
If I knew the banks were going to close, I’d buy a load of Dairy Gold
Central to Erin Griffiths’ practice is the use of objects sourced from their everyday life. By repurposing these seemingly mundane objects, they expose the cultural significance embedded within them. By connecting commonplace and the familiar with global ‘false flags’, it invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with the material world.
In their current work, ‘If I knew the banks were going to close, I’d buy a load of Dairy Gold’, Griffiths speaks to a specifically working class experience of hope. The work questions what must be sacrificed in order for hope to be sustained - could hope be a device to keep the working classes ‘in their place’?
Griffiths’ immersive, multi-disciplinary practice examines working-class identity and lived experiences, combining their personal history with observations of larger socio-political landscapes. It works towards an understanding of self and community, between individual identity and collective consciousness and continues to challenge prevailing stereotypes about the community they grew up in.
To my mam, for getting caught on Google Maps going to the shops, thank you.
