London based Photographer Tara Griffin
Photographer.
Museum professional.
Pigeon Enthusiast.
Tara Griffin is a photographer, writer, designer, and museum professional. She has an MA in Museum and Gallery Studies from Kingston University where she excelled in innovative creative practices in heritage landscapes and was awarded the Prize for Outstanding Creative Practice 2019. She also has a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Kent.
Tara grew up in Camden Town and cites London as one of her biggest influences and inspirations. Her aim is to tell the stories of London and Londoners as best she can, to as many people as she can. She has a passion for experimental film photography and adores the Lomography colour negative 400.
She enjoys using her skills to aid charitable and creative ventures as well as in museum settings. Recently, she has been using photography and participatory practices to illustrate and explore themes in museology.
Projects
- Hackney Flowers (ON DISPLAY MUSEUM OF LONDON) - a creative response to Stephen GillI worked with a group of young people at the Museum of London to devise, film, and edit a film in response to the Museum of London's newest acquisition. The result was a 5 minute film that challenged the idea of curatorial voice, examined gentrification, and responded creatively to Stephen Gills series 'Hackney Flowers'. Due to license, I am unable to post the film but when Museum's reopen catch it at the Sackler Gallery!
- Hackney Flowers (ON DISPLAY MUSEUM OF LONDON) - a creative response to Stephen GillI worked with a group of young people at the Museum of London to devise, film, and edit a film in response to the Museum of London's newest acquisition. The result was a 5 minute film that challenged the idea of curatorial voice, examined gentrification, and responded creatively to Stephen Gills series 'Hackney Flowers'. Due to license, I am unable to post the film but when Museum's reopen catch it at the Sackler Gallery!
- Pubology: an enthnographic study into pubs and museum classification (awarded the Prize for Outstanding Creative Practice in Museum and Gallery Studies 2020)This is my dissertation for MA Museum and Gallery Studies at Kingston School of Arts. This project consisted of six months of ethnographic research into pub materiality, aesthetics, attendees, communities, and experiences. I collected over 60GB of data on museums from soundscapes, to interviews, to photographic responses, old archive images, and more. I also conducted 6 hours of interviews and over 90 responses to a questionnaire. I recorded most of this into a Tumblr which looked at changing ho
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Work history
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Guest WriterTaschtastic
London, United KingdomFreelance
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Museum AssistantMuseum of Freemasonry
London, United KingdomFull Time
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Skills
- Photography
- Creative Writing
- IT
- Brand Content
- Exhibition Curation
- Social Content
- Design
- Assistant Editing
- Museum Display
- Exhibition Interpretation
Education
Master of Arts (Museum and Gallery Studies) First ClassKingston School of Art
- London, United Kingdom
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Summer CourseUniversity of Kent
- Paris, France
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