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A note on the series
»SHREDDED!«
[LUXON QUOTES] RUBBISH COLLECTION
2026
For Checkmate, an exhibition currently on at COMMODE [@commode_commode], Te Whanganui-a-Tara, curated by DJCS, ‘where residue is brought to the forefront.’ Over 120 artists were invited to contribute one piece of rubbish.
CG produced »SHREDDED!« taking six quotes by Aotearoa New Zealand’s prime minister Christopher Luxon, typesetting into the poster format, printing then shredding, using her late mother-in-law’s A4 shredder. She delivered a clear rubbish bag filled with the shredded words. Made in a day. Posted the next.
Each poster includes an Internet-sourced quote by Luxon, and image, enlarged and zoomed into the proponent’s face, pixelated. The pixel typeface is Lo-Res, designed in 1985 by Zuzana Licko, who later developed the bitmap version, used in this series, released by Emigre in 2001. Composed in the guise of a type specimen poster, a format regularly used by CG to make a point, a protest or, simply shred some light on the subject ...
[The shredded posters are a nod to friend and typographer Len Cheeseman who, in 1994, invited to speak on New Zealand magazine design, walked into the auditorium at the then Wellington City Gallery with two rubbish bags full of shredded paper, and told the audience “here’s what I think about NZ magazines” and promptly emptied the shreds at his feet onto the stage. ACP Magazines walked out.]
— CG / February 2026
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photo / Catherine Griffiths
visit @s_h_r_e_d_d_e_d_ to:
🔗 register to vote
🔗 check out Checkmate
🔗 free posters to download/print/shred
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03 other in(ter)ventions
TypeSHED11
an international typography symposium, Wellington, NZ
typ gr ph c
a series of compact workshops, Karekare, NZ
installations, exhibitions
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
Griffith University Art Museum, Meanjin Brisbane, Australia
24 February — 16 May 2026
Catherine Griffiths: Walk With Me
Te Wai Ngutu Kākā Gallery, Auckland University of Technology, Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa NZ
30 July — 24 October 2025
Catherine Griffiths: Out of Line
The Design Gallery, University of Melbourne, Naarm, Australia
19 May — 27 June 2025
Iterations/Alterations
Enjoy Contemporary Art Space, Chapter 1, Aotearoa NZ
15 February — 29 March 2025 [extended to Chapter 2]
What is my threshold now?
Manifesto vs Manifest, PLATES #1, 2024, New York, USA
7/7, 14 views
Te Tuhi Project Wall, Aotearoa NZ
20 August – 22 October 2023
Self-preservation
Offering It Up, Adam Art Gallery, Aotearoa NZ
24 August —
29 October 2023
The Phone Book: Club de Conversation (2012): deconstructed (2019), suspended (2022)
Counterparts // Part one: Where To From Here?, No Vacancy, Naarm Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
12 – 31 July 2022
catherine griffiths : SOLO IN [ ] SPACE
The Space Gallery, Shanghai, CHINA
13 October – 1 December 2019
Work/Space
Shanghai Art and Design Exhibition, CHINA
3 – 13 December 2017
A whakapapa, two lines of women, an installation drawing
All Lines Converge, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery Aotearoa NZ
2016
Installation with mirror and line
transitionalfieldwork, an exhibition, Aotearoa NZ
2016
only U know ...
collaboration, Lela Jacobs AW17 Auckland, and SS17 Paris collection, Aotearoa NZ + FR
Constructed/Projected
installation, Typojanchi 2015, 4th International Typography Biennale, Seoul, KR
November 2015
The Tuwhare Poster Project
fund-raiser for the Hone Tuwhare Trust Writers Residency, Aotearoa NZ
2014
memento :: motif
Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Alzheimer, Valparaíso, Chile
23 September — 23 August 2012
The Phone Book
a maquette, for the Club de Conversation project, Aotearoa NZ
2012
Club de Conversation at S/F with Dino Chai, Auckland, Aotearoa NZ
14 July – 18 August 2012
Club de Conversation: Keyhole Series and Dials
rug series, Dilana Workshop, Aotearoa NZ
June — July 2012
Sound Tracks
installation, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, Aotearoa NZ
2011
The Jets
short film, Paris, France
2010
posters, protest, statements
SHREDDED
[LUXON QUOTES] RUBBISH COLLECTION, six [type specimen] posters, 2026, Aotearoa NZ
The Best Design Awards
three [type specimen] posters, 2018, Aotearoa NZ
Labour of Love
another word-play poster, 2018, Aotearoa NZ
W in black
drawings in progress, 2017, Aotearoa NZ/FR
The Alphabet
front page takeover of the Sentinel & Enterprise newspaper for 26 days, Fitchburg, USA
The Brexit Series
a word-play [type specimen] poster series in response to Brexit, Aotearoa NZ
Raising the Flag
contemplative, suggestive — design unravelled, Aotearoa NZ
Protest Vessel
1/2 PRICE
a collaboration with ceramic artist Raewyn Atkinson, Aotearoa NZ
SHREDDED! [LUXON QUOTES] RUBBISH COLLECTION
2026
Six quotes by Aotearoa New Zealand’s prime minister Christopher Luxon, each in the guise of a type specimen poster, shredded.
Checkmate
14 February – 14 March
COMMODE
Te Whanganui-a-Tara
>> read on, beneath posters
Each poster is notated with the date made, and information on the typeface used:
“Māori seats don’t make a lot of sense”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/
political/483083/maori-seats-
don-t-make-a-lot-of-sense-
christopher-luxon
Article Three “cannot — and should not — guarantee equality of outcomes, because that, frankly, is socialism.”
https://pointofordernz.
wordpress.com/2026/02/09/the-
quiet-war-at-waitangi-2026/
“make a marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag”
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/
national/quote-of-the-year-luxon-s-
go-make-a-marmite-sandwich-in-
running-for-annual-contest/
“The terrorist attacks by Hamas in October 2023 were brutal and we have unequivocally condemned them”
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/
1912205/new-zealand-designates-
entirety-of-hamas-a-terrorist-entity
“Let me be clear: I’m wealthy, I’m — you know — sorted.”
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/
im-wealthy-and-im-sorted-the-tone-
deaf-privilege-of-this-filthy-rich-
christian-prime-minister/
“I do not care”
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz- news/360670649/prisoner-voting-
ban-be-reinstated-government
COMMODE
Zuzana Licko
Emigre
more type specimen posters
The Brexit Series
The Best Design Awards
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