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I am currently building a body of work - film, painting, poetry and performance - for 'Delusions of Grandma' my first solo show with Quench Gallery Margate in 2024. This work follows on from my DYCP funded development with Arts Council England in 2022.

 

I am also taking on paid performance work that I am able to make relevant to this project, such as my 15-minute drag piece 'Like Father'. If you want something raw, go to my Margate Radio show for relaxed, intimate chat about family and class with madly various great music. 

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visual art and film

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'Beneath this Mask' group exhibition for Claude Cahun touring with Hayward Gallery at Beaney Museum Canterbury 2023

 

'Ramsgate International Film Festival' 2023 dates/location TBC

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'Both Sides Now 8: Queer Reality / Virtuality' curated by Isaac Leung & Jamie Wyld at Horse Hospital, London; Fabrica, Brighton; Eaton Hotel, Hong Kong & Esea Contemporary, Manchester 2023

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'Pave Your Path' video artist development programme and exhibitions with Film London, g.39 Cardiff & Videotage Hong Kong at Royal College of Art, London; Art Basel HK w. British Council; Cardiff screening TBC 2023

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'Power of Women Festival' Thanet 2023

 

‘Queer Art(ists) Now’ group exhibition at Space Station 65, London 2022

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'BRINK' artist residency at Resort Studios with Margate Pride 2022

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‘The Open' at The Turner Contemporary Margate 2021 - 2022

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'BRINK' artist residency at Nayland Rock with Margate Pride 2021

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'KingDom' group exhibition at Art Hub Studios, London 2021

 

'Unlocked’ group exhibition with Shoreline Partners at The Pie Factory Margate 2021

 

‘O here have a little bit of love’ solo pop-up sharing exhibition to meet my new town, at No 23 Margate 2020

 

‘Queer Art(ists) Now’ group exhibition at The Archive Gallery London 2020

 

Bow Open Studios with Bow Arts Trust London 2019

 

‘Let Go at the Depot’ artist residency with The Depot Clapton London 2019

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'The Halloween Project' group exhibition with Stitch in Time at Ugly Duck, London 2015

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‘Dic Pic’ short film (and photographic print) 2019

So far screened at the Montreal Feminist Film Festival, Brighton Film Pride, Shorts on Tap London in conjunction with TimeOut, the Toronto Alt Film Festival, A Symposium on the Body at the Regent Street Cinema, and in exhibition context at Queer Art(ists) Now, London.

 

Queer Film Curation as Guest Curator with Birds Eye View Film 2020

For Mark Cousins’ documentary ‘Women Make Film’ on BFI Player 2020

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Writing & Performance in Art Gallery Context

'Canine for Kusama' hosting dog show at TATE Modern with U:Studio 2022

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'Pecs Drag Kings' writing comic critique/engagement with art at TATE Britain, TATE Modern, The Southbank Centre and The Royal Academy 2016-2018, including a cycle of six monologues (all written by me, performed by myself and 5 other artists), in the voices of 5 imagined men, each responding differently to being taken home by Tracey Emin to her 1998 'My Bed'.

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writing and performance

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'Like Father' new solo performance commission for South by Southeast festival at Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury 2023

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Surrey Poetry Festival 2023

 

Winner of Third Prize in Poetry Wales annual international competition 2023

 

'Outspoken Poetry Award' long-listed 2023

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'Earthbound' reading at Southbank Centre London for National Poetry Library Open Day 2022

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'The Intimacy Tours' letter-writing / zine with Arts Council England 2022

 

'NAWR Magazine: The Caru Issue' [The Love Issue] poetry published 2021

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'Memory 2021' image and word group project with Margate Queer Writers 2021, responding to Bernadette Mayer's 1971 piece, including an exhibition now one year later in various Margate locations during July 2022.

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Earthbound Poetry Series: ‘Vol. 1, No. 15 - Kit Griffiths’ 2020

 

‘Reclaim the Frame’ with Birds Eye View 2019-2020

Touring writer and performer, responding to all-female-made films with drag, stand-up, original music and truth workshops, in cinemas around the country, from Curzon Soho to the Leeds Pyramid. Online projects from Summer 2020.

 

Pecs Drag Kings (writer, deviser, performer and compere) 2013-2019

Shows included

‘The 80’s Show’ at Soho Theatre 2018

‘Sex Sex Men Men’ at The Yard Hackney Wick 2019

WINNER of the Off West-End Award for Best Immersive/Devised/Atypical Production

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Signed with Marigold Atkey at David Higham Associates 2014

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Voicework 2012 - ongoing

22 Audiobooks all available on Audible. Click here for my voice reel and reviews.

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‘FIERCE’ play (writer & performer) at both Cambridge University ADC in 2011 & Camden People’s Theatre 2014

"Hilarious… a remarkable piece of work" Everything Theatre

"A fiercely intelligent creative force" Exeunt

"A very special talent" The Reviews Hub

"Gripping…our hearts are broken" LondonTheatre1

"Highly accomplished...a true feat of solo performance" BargainTheatreLand

“[Griffiths is] Very bloody talented indeed.” Ali Smith

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‘The Cure’ play (writer) representing the CUADC at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2010

“A gratifying gem” Stage Magazine

“Witty, courageous, genuinely funny, highly unsettling.” Ali Smith

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Various acting & performance (without writing)

“Mesmerising. The best individual performance I’ve ever seen in Cambridge – beautiful, funny, mad – heart-melting and heart-breaking.” John Waite, BBC Radio 4

“Tender and compelling” The Times

“Absorbing and energetic” Fringe Opera

“Tender and charged” The Spectator

 

education

 

University of Cambridge 2008-2011

BA English Literature (2:1)

 

St John’s College Cardiff 1997-2007

3 A grades at full A-Level (English Literature, History, Art)

4 A grades at AS-Level  (English Literature, History, Art, Economics)

10 A* grades at GCSE (English Literature, English Language, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, History, Geography, French and Art)

 

Work outside of the Arts

Waitress, care worker (with elderly and physically impaired), bartender, tutor, insurance admin, coffee barista, Santa, cobbler’s assistant, painter-decorator, child-minder, child protection minute-taker, life-model, advertising copywriter...