Laura Griffith

Landscape & Portrait
Artist

ABOUT
Laura Griffith is an award winning landscape and portrait artist living in Cowaramup, Western Australia.
Born in Perth in 1981, she graduated from Curtin University in 2002 with a BA Fine Art. Laura moved to the Margaret River Region in 2009 where she married and had her first child, settling in the town of Cowaramup where she now works from her home studio.

Laura has traveled Australia extensively, and her love for the land is encapsulated in her work. She explores themes of connection to place and the healing aspects of spending time immersed in the natural world. Atmospheric use of colour and light feature in her work, invoking a feeling of harmony and peace. Lauras brushwork is delicate and brings a softness and beauty to her work.  Locations selected to paint are chosen intuitivly upon returning home with a camera full of ideas and reference imagery, prioritising those that have evoked within her a lasting and emotionally connected response to the land.

"Reconnecting with the memory and feeling of a place through the process of painting is an addictive and meditative process that I feel I will never get tired of. "

Portraits are another passion that Laura continues to practice alongside her landscapes, taking private commission requests. She also meets up regulary with a local group of southwest artists called the "North-South-East-West Artists" for informal studio catchup sessions to work spontaniously on both individual and shared projects.

Artist CV

Education

2002 BACHELOR OF ARTS (FINE ART) Curtin University


Awards / Achievements

2023   Winner, Ludlow Art Prize for Australian Landscape Painting

2021    Finalist, City of Busselton Art Award

2001   Winner, Student Award, City of Joondalup Art Exhibition


Group Exhibitions

2024  Margaret River Region Open Studios

2024  Cossack Art Awards

2024  Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival Visual Stories Competition

2024   "North South East West" group show. Angus Watkins Studio Gallery Wilyabrup

2023   Guest artist at the Russell Ord Gallery, Cowaramup

2023   Ludlow Art Prize - Winner

2023  Harvey Community Art Prize

2023   Margaret River Region Open Studios

2021   City of Busselton Art Award, ArtGeo Cultural Complex

2021   Margaret River Region Open Studios

2021   Vasse Art Award, Vasse Primary School

2021   MRIS Annual Art Auction, The Heart, Margaret River

2020   City of Busselton Art Award, ArtGeo Cultural Complex

2020   City of Bayswater Community Art Award, The Rise, Maylands

2020   MRIS Annual Art Auction, The Heart, Margaret River

2006   Revival of the nude Elements Art Gallery, Subiaco

2005   Town of Vincent Art Award

2004   Town of Cambridge Art Award

2004   City of Wanneroo Community Art Award 

2004   Recent works by Laura McCabe & Chris Young ” Blend(er)Gallery, Joondalup

2004   "Lets Blend”, Blend(er) Gallery, Joondalup

2001 - 2004 Joondalup Community Art Exhibition

1999   "Box Exhibition”, Curtin University, on campus