David Griffen’s practice moves between photography, material processes, and object-making. The work draws on Australian native plants, the industrial landscape of Newcastle’s coal industry, and ongoing ideas around mutation and time. Working with analogue photography, alternative darkroom processes, painting, silkscreen printing, and ceramics, images are often reworked across mediums, shifting from photograph to surface to object. The practice is shaped by repetition, experimentation, and the slow accumulation of images over extended timelines.

David Griffen’s exhibitions have focused on botanical still life, presented through solo and selected group exhibitions. Highlights include solo presentations in Cornwall, the Flora and Plantlife series in Australia, and recent showings in The Lock-Up’s Collect in 2024 and 2025, Out for Summer at Onwards, and Botanical at Newcastle Art Space. Across these contexts, Griffen work extends a sustained study of form, tone, and species specificity.

David Griffen’s silver-gelatin prints, meticulously crafted in the darkroom, are informed by the striking forms of Australian native flora and rendered as restrained black-and-white botanical studies. The series comprises limited-edition, signed and numbered framed works, alongside smaller unframed open-edition prints. Presented in regional exhibitions, several of his works have been aquired for the  University of Newcastle collection – the limited edition works are available to purchase online and through private viewings by appointment.

Produced under Kiln Australia, David Griffen’s ceramics translate his botanical photography into finely screen-printed imagery on slip-cast forms, privileging clarity of line, proportion, and function. The range comprises limited-run vessels, including bud vases, sake sets, and related tableware, each hand-finished and food-safe, with occasional site-specific editions. Works are presented through gallery shops and exhibitions, and are available to acquire online and via private viewings by appointment.