Catherine Griffiths

29 January - 18 April 2026

For four decades, Catherine Griffiths, designer and artist from Aotearoa New Zealand, has attentively examined the potentials of language, materiality and drawing in space. Her work operates at the nexus of an expanded, socially-engaged, interdisciplinary practice founded in graphic design, with a focus on typography, sculptural form, and public art.

Griffiths reconfigures typographic context and meaning through shifts in scale and the immersive experience, transforming how we perceive and interact with language, from the concrete to the abstract.

Throughout her career, Griffiths has used language, light and sound as both a material and conceptual force. Through typographic installations, time-based media, and site-specific interventions, Griffiths encourages the viewer to read between the lines, engage in spatial dialogues and consider the alternative.

Curated by Ela Egidy and Megan Patty and touring from the Melbourne School of Design, Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line is the largest exhibition of Griffiths’ work presented in Australia to-date. The exhibition offers a unique chance to experience the provocations and physical qualities of Griffiths’ practice, where form and materiality are at once visible and tactile.

Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line is curated by Ela Egidy and Megan Patty and presented by the Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne, with the support of the Melbourne Art Book Fair and the Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Melbourne

^{Image: Installation view Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line, The Design Gallery, Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture Building and Planning, University of Melbourne. Photo: Tobias Titz}