Garth Gratrix is a Contemporary Artist working in multiple mediums.
"My art often examines notions of language and behaviour, in particular how we interact with our immediate environments and the stability and instability that these provide. I make installations and low tech sculputural pieces using found and or given objects in order to re-introduce audiences to their everyday encounters."
Exploring contextual shifts in emphasis towards objects, creating spaces of intrigue as apposed to convenience and allowing a gap in time amongst an ever evolving societal disregard, are avenues for enquiry within Gratrix' work. However the beauty of the work often lies within the process of purely experimenting with the 'things' that we either create or that are created for us. An almost sureal reality that is staged performed but truthful.
With this in mind the work takes on a layering of ideas in an almost constant retrospective state of display. Embracing the art of indecision as a parody to people, to life and using childlike naivity as a means to describe the space in which we affect and mark out the aftermath of the artists hand as it begins to open further narratives for those 'things' we see or are surrounded by more sub consciously.
