Posts by Lynette
How do we go on?
Are we coming to an end? This question has been on my mind since visiting the island of Patmos in the eastern Mediterranean a couple of years ago. These days it’s a destination for holy pilgrimage and holiday makers. I visited the Cave of the Apocalypse, saw the place where John wrote down his visions,…
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These banners were made for a procession and then we entered our first lock down in 2020. At the first pause we went to the creek to try it out.
Read MoreTaking 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…
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