Antony "Griff" Griffiths

Antony Griffiths was born at some point in the 20th century. He has always had an interest in images and art. He has a diploma in illustration and also studied illustration at degree level at the university of the West of England in Bristol and received a 2:1 in 2001.
A lot of Antony’s work is social comment and observation. Often, a piece of work is an attempt to say something honest about the world within which we live, and the seemingly unquestionable systems which we find ourselves a part of. The work is rendered in various mediums including traditional pen and ink, watercolour, gouache and acrylics. As mentioned, each piece has something to say about the world in a way which is often comical and irreverent but with a serious message at its heart. As with a lot of imagery, the meaning is, in the end, ambiguous and therefore interpretable in many ways and is ultimately subjective to the viewer.
The bulk of the work shown here comes from self-imposed briefs, and is often about current national/international issues, political, philosophical and personal, or whatever particular bee in the bonnet there is at the time; the abomination that is the Iraq war, greed, excessive capitalism, pointless waste, trivial, simple subject matters(!). The work is created mainly instinctively but informed from many and varied sources, a lot is simply social and cultural observation and comment, with a political and visual standpoint influenced from a plethora of disparate areas, which hopefully speaks for itself.
In the last couple of years he has shown work in many exhibitions and in April last year had 2 pieces shown in the RBSA gallery in central Birmingham and in an exhibition for Amnesty International in Malvern. He has since shown work in a few galleries around the country, the last exhibition in which he showed work was in the Bankside Gallery on London’s Southbank. He lives and works in Malvern