Blake Griffiths

Blake Griffiths is an artist, curator, and facilitator working with a textile focus based on Gadigal / Wangal Country (Inner West NSW) with a strong connection to Wilyakali Country (Far West NSW). His practice is informed by a research interest of textile thinking and particularly, the analogy of the warp and weft in weaving as a framework for critique, conversation and understanding interconnections between opposing ideas.

Most recently, Blake was the Director of the Broken Hill Regional Art Gallery – setting an annual program for the institution in response to environmental catastrophe, heavy resource-extraction in the community and the diverse practices and histories of the unique artistic community. In his seven years working within the context of Far West NSW, he developed FreshBark, a program which centred emerging First Nations practitioners to develop their practices and make space within the institution for community to gather and celebrate.

Blake will participate in the 2023 edition of the Tamworth Textiles Triennial and sit as guest editor of Art Monthly Australasia’s 2023 textile edition. He will join symposium Weaving Matter at the Australian Design Centre discussing the critical role of textile education and participate in the Kyamba Foundations 2023 edition of the Wangaratta Textile Prize. In 2022, he was awarded an Ian Potter fellowship to continue his research into early European (Wadmal) woollen cloth and complete a residency at the Icelandic Tex'le Centre. He was selected by The Australia Council as an emerging arts leader and attended a career development program at the Venice Biennale in 2019.