Zan Griffith - Unstapled 2
Paper and photo collage, 53x43x2cm, 2025
Zan is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist who lives and works on Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung country. She has a special interest in the politics of public city space. She makes masks, puppets and costumes and devises fictional characters that respond to the spatial politics of the city, often inserting them into the public realm as guerrilla theatre style surprise performances. The artist’s work crosses different mediums including performance, installation, video, photography and collage.
She has a Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT and has a background in education, community work and the visual arts. She has done sessional teaching at RMIT in public art and is a casual on the ACCA education team as well as a Visitor Experience guide at ACMI.
For Counter Encounter, Zan presents a series of ‘old-school’ paper collages, which form part of her process in developing future imaginaries and yet to be realised characters for performance.
In this series, Unstapled Tryst, Melbourne’s Nicholas Building, the Forum and The Princess Theatre collide together in a lover’s tryst of care and fervor alongside the artist's own aged skin and limbs. The work and title was partly inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem.
“We stood upon our stapled feet
Condemned but just to see.”
— They put Us far apart, Emily Dickinson
Paper and photo collage, 53x43x2cm, 2025
Zan is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist who lives and works on Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung country. She has a special interest in the politics of public city space. She makes masks, puppets and costumes and devises fictional characters that respond to the spatial politics of the city, often inserting them into the public realm as guerrilla theatre style surprise performances. The artist’s work crosses different mediums including performance, installation, video, photography and collage.
She has a Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT and has a background in education, community work and the visual arts. She has done sessional teaching at RMIT in public art and is a casual on the ACCA education team as well as a Visitor Experience guide at ACMI.
For Counter Encounter, Zan presents a series of ‘old-school’ paper collages, which form part of her process in developing future imaginaries and yet to be realised characters for performance.
In this series, Unstapled Tryst, Melbourne’s Nicholas Building, the Forum and The Princess Theatre collide together in a lover’s tryst of care and fervor alongside the artist's own aged skin and limbs. The work and title was partly inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem.
“We stood upon our stapled feet
Condemned but just to see.”
— They put Us far apart, Emily Dickinson
Paper and photo collage, 53x43x2cm, 2025
Zan is a Melbourne/Naarm based artist who lives and works on Wurundjeri and Boon wurrung country. She has a special interest in the politics of public city space. She makes masks, puppets and costumes and devises fictional characters that respond to the spatial politics of the city, often inserting them into the public realm as guerrilla theatre style surprise performances. The artist’s work crosses different mediums including performance, installation, video, photography and collage.
She has a Master of Arts (Art in Public Space) from RMIT and has a background in education, community work and the visual arts. She has done sessional teaching at RMIT in public art and is a casual on the ACCA education team as well as a Visitor Experience guide at ACMI.
For Counter Encounter, Zan presents a series of ‘old-school’ paper collages, which form part of her process in developing future imaginaries and yet to be realised characters for performance.
In this series, Unstapled Tryst, Melbourne’s Nicholas Building, the Forum and The Princess Theatre collide together in a lover’s tryst of care and fervor alongside the artist's own aged skin and limbs. The work and title was partly inspired by an Emily Dickinson poem.
“We stood upon our stapled feet
Condemned but just to see.”
— They put Us far apart, Emily Dickinson