Consumption
2008
202x x 141 cm
Oil on canvas
The work of contemporary artist Mitch Griffiths apprehends the viewer through a dissection of twenty first century existence.
Richly detailed, viscerally layered canvases disclose scenes which simultaneously examine notions of empire, guilt, celebrity and first world entitlement; whilst proffering to expose the essential vacuity of a society drenched in mass media and consumed by consumption itself. Griffiths employs an unflinching high realism to pick apart ideas which promise to haunt with an unnerving familiarity.