Working on Wurundjeri-Willam land

By Lynette | 2019

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…

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CV

By Lynette | 2018

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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An island

By Lynette | 2018

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.

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Unhidden

By Lynette | 2018

Exhibited as part of the exhibition Dark drawn in Vilnius 2018, photographer Laurynas Skeisgiela.

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Stones from the Baltic

By Lynette | 2018

Objects more or less grounded in reality. Notes from a residency at the Nida Art Colony in 2018. Watercolour on paper. These watercolour paintings are about 25×30 centimetres

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sand/fog

By Lynette | 2017
Sand/fog, installation, Lynette Smith, KINGS, head on

Two-channel video + sound. Video collected while on residency at the Nida Art Colony in 2016. Left channel 2:07, right channel 2:03. Voice recording 6:39 (script by Lynette Smith, voice Kai Bradley). Exhibited at KINGS ARI, November 2017. Documentation by Christian Capurro.

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