Exhibitions
2025
~ Beep Painting Biennial at Aberystwyth School of Art SY23 1NG
~ Agored 2025 Space : Group exhibition at Plas Brondanw LL48 6SW
~ Beep Painting Biennial & Do Androids Dream? at Oriel Croesor LL48 6SS
~ Annual Summer Exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
~ At the Promised Place : Expanding Imagination Through Book Art : Group exhibition at Urawa Art Museum, Japan
~ Croesor Mewn Print at Oriel Croesor LL48 6SS
2024
~ Agored 2024 Transformation : Group exhibition at Plas Brondanw LL48 6SW
~ Kyffin Williams Drawing Prize 2024 : Group exhibition at Oriel Mon LL77 7TQ
~ The RCA at Chester Cathedral : Group exhibition at Chester Cathdral CH1 2DY
~ MOSS GARDEN : Noëlle Griffiths and Kim Atkinson at STORIEL LL57 1DT
~ Annual Summer Exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
~ MOSS GARDEN : Noëlle Griffiths and Kim Atkinson at Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw LL53 7TT
~ Small Publishers Fair with Andrew Morrison at Conway Hall W1R 4RL
~ Beep Painting Biennial 2024 at Elysium Gallery SA1 1PE
~ Annual Winter Exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
2023
~ PAGES : Reset, Contemporary Artists Book Fair at Leeds University LS2 9JT
~ ISLA NAVARINO Folio by Noëlle Griffiths and Kim Atkinson as part of the Inauguration of Cape Horn International Center for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation (CHIC), Chile
~ Selected Works on Paper : Group exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
~ LANDMARKS : Group exhibition at Oriel Croesor LL48 6SS
~ MOSS GARDEN : Noëlle Griffiths and Kim Atkinson at MOMA Machynlleth SY20 8AJ
~ Long Rivers of Dream : Solo exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
2022
~ BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event
~ Paper After All : Group Exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy; PAPER, Manchester; Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
~ Celebrating Fine Art at Bangor University : Group Exhibition at STORIEL LL57 1DT
2019-20
~ Artist's BookMarket at The Fruitmarket Gallery EH1 1DF & BABE Bristol Artist's Book Event at Arnolfini Gallery BS1 4QA
~ Elected member of Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy
~ 'Hafod Artists' : Noëlle Griffiths and Linda Davies at Snowdonia National Park Centre LL41 3YU
~ New Members Exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
2018
~ 'Fragile' Solo artist's books exhibition at Bower Ashton Library BS3 2JT (part of Re-Take/Re-Invent organised by Fine Art, Bangor University in collaboration with the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and exhibited at Royal Cambrian Academy, Conwy; Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni and Storiel, Bangor in 2016)
~ 'It's very quiet here' Solo exhibition of paintings and artist's books at STORIEL LL57 1DT
~ 'Padua Fragments' Solo exhibition of paintings, collages and artist's books at GALERI LL55 1SQ
~ 'By Invitation' : Group exhibition at Royal Cambrian Academy LL32 8AN
Projects
2023 - 2025 Hafod Art Studio : artists in residence programme between March - July. In collaboration with Oriel Brondanw and Oriel Croesor. See Hafod-art and instagram
2023 Cowboys and Indians artists books : collaboration with book artist Andrew Morrison. We made three versions of bound books : Wilderness, Home and Fence - original text digitally printed with cut-out 1960s Cornflake Packets. Following this collaboration I made related concertina books : 1960s Mum and Home, Wilderness, Fence, Land. See Gallery and instagram
2023 ISLA NAVARINO DREAMING series of paintings and artist's books I have travelled South and Canoe made on my return from Chile, remembering the Yahgan people, their way of life, their stories and their dreaming. See Moss Garden and Long Rivers of Dream
2023 ISLA NAVARINO Folio : Artists in Residence (with Kim Atkinson) at the Cape Horn International Centre for Global Change Studies and Biocultural Conservation (CHIC), Southern Chile 6 January - 6 February. With support from Wales Arts International. See Moss Garden
2022-23 Long Rivers of Dream paintings. I have returned to a title of a painting I made in 1992 when I was pregnant with my first son: Long Rivers of Dream, Long Rivers of Oil. Dreaming of past, present and what will come. See Long Rivers of Dream
2022 Praise the Beautiful Red Lion series of paintings and unique artist’s books. "The Red Lion was packed so it wasn’t surprising when a few days later someone contacted me to say they tested positive. Then on Christmas Day, early in the morning, Hamish texted that he too was positive messaging ‘Praise the Beautiful Red Lion’. I knew then I would make a painting – a red painting – about these crazy Covid years". See Gallery
2021 - 2022 PERFECTION paintings and unique artist's books in response to nature. Painting the beautiful grasses and plants and thinking about how everything touches and connects. See Gallery
2021 - 2023 In collaboration with Kim Atkinson Hafod Woodland - Snowdonia Rainforest - edition of two unique folios. We are painting in the woodland at Hafod, making microscope paintings of moss, lichen, liverworts and plants collected in each season. This project records the changes to the woodland as cows graze and birch and sallow are cleared. See Moss Garden and on See Woodland Pasture - conifers to cows on YouTube.
2020 SLEEP artist’s books and paintings (watercolour, gouache, acrylic) on watercolour and Japanese paper in response to the eight hour work SLEEP by Max Richter (piano, organ, synthesisers, electronics, violin, viola, cello, soprano). Selected paintings have been bound as one-off artist's books with archival digital text which muses on what happens to us in our dream state, absorbing and processing. See Gallery and images on instagram
2019 Intimate Land - thirty years on a digital version of a book I made in 1988 as a response to the conifers planted in 1965 covering the intimate landscape of pasture and oak woodland. Now thirty years after clearing the conifers and planting broadleaf trees at Hafod we embark on the next stage of returning the land back to a beautiful and diverse landscape. See Woodland Pasture - conifers to cows on YouTube.
2019 Moss Garden- Snowdonia Rainforest series of mixed media paintings on canvas, watercolour paper and card using microscope paintings of moss and liverworts as a starting point. See Moss Garden
2019 - 2020 In collaboration with Kim Atkinson Moss Garden - Snowdonia Rainforest - edition of five unique folios of paintings, relief prints and digital text (English and Welsh) of eight common mosses and liverworts found in Ceunant Llennyrch, a deciduous woodland near Maentwrog in Snowdonia. Paintings and prints made in response to place, sound and habitat in each season, alongside microscope paintings of each bryophyte at high and low magnification. This woodland forms part of the recently designated Celtic Rainforest, an EU and Welsh Government funded project supported by the Snowdonia National Park, Woodland Trust and RSPB Cymru. See Moss Garden
2018 - 2019 Sacred Boulders watercolour paintings and artist's books (an edition of nine digital books and four unique books) inspired by the standing boulders in SW Spain and North Wales which connect us all, deep below. See Gallery
SEASONS 2008 - ongoing - Painting, drawing and writing in each season on the coastal headland near Aberdaron and mountain woodland of Snowdonia. These intense times of looking, listening and being in the landscape are the starting point for series of paintings and related artist’s books.
SEASONS Winter Solstice 2011 to Autumn Equinox 2012 : 'Dawn to Dusk' artist's books by Noelle Griffiths Hafod Press 2012
On each of the Solstices and Equinoxes and on Midsummer’s Day, Noelle recorded in words, drawings and photographs the sounds she heard hourly from dawn to dusk. Noelle witnessed the weather and bird sounds of the Solstices and Equinoxes from outside her studio in the mountain woodland of Snowdonia. Midsummer's Day was spent on the coastal headland near Aberdaron.
The sound drawings were bound in five unique artist’s books ‘Dawn to Dusk’. Each book contains a record of the day as it unfolded from dawn to dusk in photographs, sound drawings and words. As well as the five unique books, Noelle made a limited edition of concertina books of digital photographs and text for Midsummer's Day. All books are bound in linen and board covers with a letterpress title.
Winter Solstice 2011, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, Autumn Equinox 2012 - Hafod studio, near Maentwrog, Snowdonia
Dawn to Dusk is a series of five one-off artist's books; bound books with boards covered in pale umber fabric with letterpress title; mixed media paintings, digital photographs and text printed with archival ink on 175gsm Somerset book paper; 18 x 52cm closed; signed one-off books; 2012 Dawn to Dusk Solstices and Equinoxes, Hafod studio : four one-off books
Dawn to Dusk Midsummer's Day - coastal headland : single one-off book
Midsummer's Day 2012 - Coastal headland, near Aberdaron, Penllyn
Dawn to Dusk concertina book with boards covered in pale umber fabric with letterpress title; digital photographs and text printed with archival ink on 175gsm Somerset book paper; 18 x 24cm closed, 18 x 450cm open; signed limited edition of five copies. 2012 £145
SEASONS Winter 2008 - Autumn 2010 : 'Bird Song' artists' book by Noelle Griffiths and Kim Atkinson Hafod Press 2010
Noelle Griffiths and Kim Atkinson collaborated for 18 months making a large format artists' book. Each season, each artist made half hour sound drawings/paintings (24x100cm) in the landscape at two places near where they each live: Snowdonia woodland at Hafod near Maentwrog and Parwyd, coastal headland near Aberdaron. After making the season's drawings Noelle and Kim created an edition of ten prints combining aspects of each of their drawings. These two very different locations provided very different landscapes, habitat and birds.
'Bird Song' is a large long book, 25.5x104cm closed, and is printed in an edition of ten copies. Each book is unique, containing eight relief and mono prints using oil based ink with mixed media drawing. Text is printed digitally using archival ink; it is distilled from notes on sound, weather, colour written in situ at the time of drawing and is both informative and evocative.
This collaboration has brought together Kim's knowledge and love of birds, and Noelle's experience and passion for making artist's books.
Bird Song
Bound book, in the Japanese style, with boards covered in dark green fabric; relief and mono print using oil based ink with mixed media on 285gsm Fabriano Rosaspina paper, relief print using oil based ink and archival ink digital text on 33gsm Arakaji natural Japanese paper, archival ink digital text on 280gsm BFK Rives grey paper and a glossary of bird drawings with names and calls printed digitally using archival ink on 175gsm Somerset book paper; 25.5 x 104cm closed; signed limited edition of ten unique copies; 2010 £750
8 relief and mono prints on Fabriano Rosaspina paper
8 relief prints with digital text on Arakaji Japanese paper
4 seasons digital text on BFK Rives grey paper
2 glossary of birds, with drawings and names in English, Welsh and Latin on Somerset book paper
1 title page on Somerset book paper
1 copyright page on Somerset book paper
Watch two short films of Noelle and Kim talking about making 'Bird Song' Winter and 'Bird Song' Winter 2
Request to see Bird Song at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth