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ERIN SMITH
BIOGRAPHY & CV
Artists have long been fascinated by the conceptual link between words, images and ideas, and Erin Smith’s work represents a contemporary foray into this territory. Smith uses words as her medium – literally – by creating pictures out of words and lettering digitally manipulated so that the assembled typography no longer describes an idea, but embodies it.
This approach speaks of a new way to understand cultural experience in a world where traditional divisions and certainties have become blurred. It undermines the illusion of self-containment of the art image, once the hallmark of modernism, and demonstrates the visual text as a site for an infinite number of readings.
Smith’s meticulous compositions intensify this process, drawing attention to the way in which we construct meaning. Her exquisite fusions of the mechanisms of life and death – whether body parts or weapons – oscillate between beauty and horror and confront us with the disturbing truth: it is only humans that have the power to transform signs into meanings.
Qualifications
2007
Bachelor of Design Arts — Australian Academy of Design, Melbourne
1998
Certificate IV Printing, Graphic Arts — Southbank
Institute of Tafe, Brisbane
Exhibitions
2010
Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Green-Wood Gallery, Melbourne (forthcoming)
2009
The Winter Show, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Verge, Tiger Translate, Copenhagen
Gertrude St Projection Festival, Melbourne
Art in Mind, Bricklane Gallery, London
2008
Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Melbourne Fringe Festival
5X5, Gadens Law Firm, Brisbane
Before You Are Famous, Diaz Castillo Gallery—
Melbourne
Conceit 08, Corangamarah Art Prize, Victoria
Clayton Utz Launch, Metro Arts Gallery, Brisbane
Art Brisbane
Art Melbourne
2007
Desktop Create Awards, Paper Shadow Gallery— Melbourne
Wrangler Wanted Festival, Milan, Italy
Curvy 4, Until Never Gallery, Melbourne
Mori Gallery, Sydney
Base, Surfers Paradise
Small Space Exhibition, Brunswick Street Gallery— Melbourne
Over the Rainbow, Clement Meadmore Gallery— Melbourne
2006
Young Guns, Peta Poster Competition, Bisbane
Young Care Poster Competition, Brisbane
Publications
2010
ColourInk Book
FreshBump - Feature
2009
Daily Serving
Dirty Mouse UK
lostateminor
ffffound
Daily Design News
Sideroom
Design Corner
Existing Visual
Design Tavern
The Grafik Museum
Colectivo33
Dazed Digital
2008
Monument Magazine
Art Almanac
Daily Serving
Issue 10 Iniciativa Colectiva magazine
We are the Image Makers magazine
MilkStar Agency
2007
Stiltskin Magazine
Curvy 4
Yen Magazine
Litmus Journal
Dazed Digital