The World (Un)Happiness Report 2023, 2023, oil on canvas
RBG 2023, 2023, oil on board
Blue Highway 2023, 2023, oil on canvas
Fisher Library, The University of Sydney 14.12.22, 2022, Digital print on Hahnemuhle photo cotton rag 308 gsm
Departure point for an unknown shape, 2023, Acrylic on archival paper
Situated within the realm of contemporary painting, my artistic practice employs repetitive and undulating lines of paint, as well as site-specific works created using geometric painted paper cutouts. Through these techniques, I aim to explore how painting can abstractly represent time and space. The challenge of working within constraints informs my artistic process, resulting in works that systematically expand upon minimal painting and examine the containment of labour and life in a visual form.
Within this framework, a multitude of exhibition possibilities are established, and comparisons are drawn between the activity of matter on a quantum level and human responses to time and space. Physicist Karen Barad’s observations of quantum weirdness and how matter behaves in the quantum realm resonate with this exploration, as they enable us to develop new ways of thinking. Additionally, ideas related to and the concept of agential realism, which encompasses the nature of difference, space, time, matter, causality, and agency, are considered.
This interdisciplinary approach intersects with the fields of physics and art history, and its effectiveness is tested through distinct bodies of work.
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Situated within the realm of contemporary painting, Smith’s artistic practice employs a conceptual approach to painting, as well as site-specific works created using geometric painted paper cutouts. Through these techniques, she aims to explore how painting can abstractly represent time and space. The challenge of working within constraints informs the artistic process, resulting in works that systematically expand upon the concept of minimal painting.