Posts by Lynette
Taking pictures (an allegory)
Book assembled in 2023 from photographs taken outside the Treasury Building in Melbourne Australia, January 2020.
Read MoreWeeds
Pictures taken early in the austral summer, 2019. Convolvulus, Brassica and Collapsed thistle prints 1100 by 840 centimetres; editions of 5. Clump 1, 2, 3 printed as a group, each print 840 by 1100 centimetres; edition of 5. Photographs taken with Christian Capurro’s assistance.
Read MoreFollowing birds
Video, 1:30 minutes, filmed with Kai Bradley in an abandoned quarry in 2019
Read MoreWorking on Wurundjeri-Willam land
Much of my work in art is about trying to get inside the act of interpretation. I want to feel and know it as an act. An act that a body does: a body that is what it is because of its semiotic powers: and semiotic powers that are what they are because of the…
Read MoreBecause a bird
Text and diagrams for a publication by Jan Adriaans, 2019.
Read MoreIn winter, I would look for birds
Video, 1:11 minutes, exhibited at 765 Bourke Street in 2019.
Read MoreA contact of circles
Paintings in watercolours, various sizes, 2018
Read MoreCV
I’m interested in how we find meaning in things. Lynette Smith completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 1995 and went on to do postgraduate study in linguistics and philosophy at the University of Melbourne in the 2000s. In 2004-2005 she was on the board of West Space, an artist-run space in…
Read MoreAn island
The island is Patmos, in the eastern Mediterranean, and the first place where I asked the question: are we coming to an end? An island was published in Art + Australia’s online journal in 2018.
Read MoreUnhidden
Exhibited as part of the exhibition Dark drawn in Vilnius 2018, photographer Laurynas Skeisgiela.
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