John Smith DipEd(STC), MA(Syd) John Smith was born in Sydney but has lived on the north coast of NSW for thirty five years. He has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University of Sydney. Smith has held more than thirty solo exhibitions and is primarily represented by Watters Gallery, in Sydney. He has work in many public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Queensland Art Gallery, Artbank and many regional collections. The tension in his work oscillates between making and effacing, simultaneously. This is the irony of ‘quietly bursting balloons,’ ‘scribbling rivalry,’ ‘as easy as pulling teeth,’ ‘the look of something to say,’ and ‘smear campaign’; various titles he uses. In recent years he has led a cultural heritage retrieval project interfaced with creative arts, Fisherman’s Village, see: www.botanyfishingvillage.org This project has resulted in a number of conference papers, journal publications and a book chapter. John Smith is the Senior Lecturer in Painting and is the Course Coordinator and Honours Coordinator in Visual Arts at Southern Cross University.
Creative works
The gentle breath I acrylic & mixed media on paper, 76 x 58cm, School of Arts and Social Sciences (2011)
ARTIST STATEMENT
Studio Enquiry: The ongoing thread of investigation in my work centres around mark-making...
A good book in theory : (when you kiss me), Artists' Books Collection (2005)
1 vol. : colour ; 21 cm.
Journal articles
Connecting silos: inviting art and science interactions (with Amanda Jean Reichelt-Brushett), Leonardo: Art, Science and Technology (2011)
In tertiary education in Australia there are often clear divisions between disciplines defined by hierarchy...
Contributions to Books
Conference publications
Booralee: the lost fishing village of Botany, Once perilous now safe: Landscapes of Exile third symposium (2006)
On the very north-western corner of Botany Bay, centered around Booralee Street in Botany is...
Booralee: the lost fishing village of Botany (Presentation), Poetics of Australian space conference (2005)
Fisherman's village: cultural heritage and a multi-layered art and information strategy, Artists, designers and creative communities: Australian Council of University Art and Design Schools (ACUADS) 2005 Conference (2005)
I would like to provide a paper that examines aspects of a cultural heritage retrieval...