Fusion of Memory, Reality & Imagination

Sally Colahan Griffin is a painter of figurative narratives, events, historical stories and dreams. Her art is in the broad band of non-traditional realism which merges contemporary life and memory within broader historical and political worlds. Her art pulses with intensity and significance, both familiar, intimate, yet expansive.

She is Melbourne born and trained and now lives in Wellington, N.Z.

Whether evoking the campaign for women’s votes in 1893, or an open plan living room reminiscent of her childhood home, Griffin’s compositions are both real and fragmentary. They read like emotionally charged montages that resist overt literalism and can begin as what I see to transform into what I understand.

ruapehu night

Monica and her Birdman hat