Meet the Artist

Griffin

McAllister

Painting & Poetry

“A dissection of the process of perception. Alternating between geometrically logical analysis and spontaneous free verse that tears an organic pattern into the seams of the once perfect symmetry. Allowing for my madness to be the catalyst in this co-creative trance. Vegetative gestation of dissociation contrasted by a wild and weird miasma of tangential thoughts. These thoughts appear in many forms and represent what appears in my consciousness at the ‘cosmogenic moment’. Simmering on the circumference of angelic whispers, dissipating into nightmares of entropy and returning to a state of numinous openness.”

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Griffin McAllister is diagnosed with schizophrenia and is a spiritual practitioner. He was diagnosed in 2018 and has been in remission since receiving treatment that year. He primarily has Scots-Irish ancestry and is grateful for the opportunity to live and create in this space known as Tkaronto.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2023
OCAD U - Faculty of Arts & Science
Creative Writing
Minor Completed, 2023
NSCADU
BFA
Major Transferred, 2018

Abstraction Poetry Ritual

2023, "Mastication" - Pulse
Toronto, ON
2023, For the Bees - Nix Gallery
Sydney, NSW, Australia
2022, Peer Support Curriculum - Youth Wellness Hubs Ontario
Ontario, CA
2021, Being Scene - Workman Arts
Toronto, ON (Online)
2020, First Self - OCADU
Toronto, ON (Online)
2020, The Essentialists - OCADU
Toronto, ON (Online)
2015, Cutting the Whale
Theater Center, Toronto ON
2022, Takao Tanabe Scholarship
OCADU
2022, Modern Mythology Project Microgrant
OCADU Student Union
2020, I AM Scholarship
Institute for Advancements in Mental Health
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