Simone Griffin
As above, so below
Aotearoa Art Fair 2023

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Nasha Gallery is pleased to present recent paintings by London-based artist, Simone Griffin. The presentation includes works made in her London studio as well as works produced prior to her debut solo exhibition New Year's Resolution with Nasha in 2022.

Simone Griffin’s paintings are about the interconnectedness of matter. Through her research, she finds parallels between Aboriginal and Western sacred stories.

In Aboriginal culture it is believed that the sky country above holds the information for what is beholden to us here on earth - the ebb and flow of the solar system is able to prompt and predict what is to happen here on country and inversely so, from the bottom up. ‘As above so below’ is a term that transcends multiple cultures and belief systems.

The phrase first appeared on the cryptic Emerald Tablet. The Hermetic text was highly regarded by Islamic and European alchemists as the foundation of their art. This is where the body of work stems from and fuses the matter between.