Alison Griffin
The Unbearable Persistence Of Longing, 2024
Pencil and oil on gessoed paper 640g
45 x 33cm (unframed)
signed and dated
CF1226
Photo: Alison Griffin
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Alison Griffin’s pencil drawings centres around her obsession with childhood memories and experiences which she uses to explore her interaction with her everyday surroundings. Utilizing photographs, memorabilia and dream events...
Alison Griffin’s pencil drawings centres around her obsession with childhood memories and experiences which she uses to explore her interaction with her everyday surroundings. Utilizing photographs, memorabilia and dream events she creates unsettling images with an uncanny and often nightmarish aesthetic. The resultant images are imbued with a cinematic quality stemming from her interest in dramatic lighting effects and suspense elements employed across cinematic genres, particularly film noir.