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FestivalOwen Griffiths
16 Medi - 07 Hydref 2006
Owen Griffiths was Mission Gallery's Artist in Residence in 2005. Since finishing the residency, and co-producing a cookbook, Owen has been creating drawing works, photography, and three dimensional forms for the exhibition Festival, which will provide an opportunity to explore alternative energies, creativity whilst initiating cooking and live action works. Celebrating the possibility of the existence of thousands of un-witnessed artworks that often take place not in the presence of an artist (every human being) but in nature and in life, he is inspired to create works that derive from organic processes, ideas of origin, current affairs. Owen explores how art, imagination and consciousness can be a medium with which to make change in the world. The theme of the works call for a reconnection between being and planet, by using natural material and looking at parallel processes, enabling a space to bring new meanings to objects.
‘Through exploration of alternative creative investigations and actions, through ‘thought drawings', installations, and growing vegetables, I search for symbols of hope, positive energy and beauty. I grow vegetables as a positive creative action. Growing and watering my allotment is a powerful source of creative energy and inspiration for my working process.'
There will be a programme of live participatory events and discussions available during the exhibition including ‘Question Time', cooking actions, as well as forums on Social Sculpture and Contemporary Practice.
This exhibition was supported by Solar City www.solarcity.co.uk
