Chirk: Margaret Griffith
On view through January 7, 2024
Craft Contemporary
Los Angeles, California
craftcontemporary.org
“Chirk” is a site-specific installation based on the gates in front of the Chirk Castle, a late 13th-century medieval fortress in Wales built to keep the Welsh under English rule. It consists of hand-cut painted Tyvek, a synthetic paper often used in construction as a protective barrier. The actual wrought and cast iron gates were considered to be one of the finest achievements of baroque ironwork in the country.
[Image: Margaret Griffith, Chirk, detail, 2023. Acrylic on hand cut Tyvek Paper, Dimensions Variable. Courtesy of the artist.]
