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Gift
Exhibition with Ross Coulter at Alta Forma in September 2025. (All documentation of the exhibition by Ross Coulter) Ross wrote: “On my first visit to Lyn’s studio, I was struck by the intimate work she was creating, inspired by a scapular gifted to her by a friend’s mother. The scapular is a holy object, originally…
Read MoreThe lucky ones
Shown at GalleryGallery in Brunswick in April 2025. Photos, words and some drawings made and collected while doing a residency at Plumwood Mountain in November 2024. Photographs by Ross Coulter.
Read MoreCandles and sticks
These candles cannot burn. If they do, then it means that everything will be gone. The fennel stalk (enclosed in wax with an inadequate wick) is a device for thinking about Prometheus, who took fire from the heavens and gave it to the humans so that they would be able to live with some joy…
Read MoreRe-relating in art practice
Project curated and published by Kathrin Wolkowicz December 2021. The publication includes contributions by Myriam van Imschoot, Andrea Callard, Toine Horvers, Heyer Thurnheer, Marcus Bergner, Kathrin Wolkowicz, Dagmar Baumann, Caroline Godart, Walter Forsberg, Edward Clydesdale Thomson, Norbert Weimer, Lynette Smith, Eléonore Pano-Zavaroni, Synonym2, Rachel Carey, Elias Dörig. Get in touch with me if you’d like…
Read MoreImages occur within us
This text–part of my own bigger project “are we coming to an end?”–was written for Art + Australia in 2020. I produced the video for their Event Horizon Symposium in August 2020. 25 minute video, from Day two from the symposium Scroll through to page 70.
Read MoreTaking pictures (an allegory)
Book assembled in 2023 from photographs taken outside the Treasury Building in Melbourne Australia, January 2020.
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 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.
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