Contact
Please email with any enquiries:
katesmithart@gmail.com
My Story
My love of nature started young. I grew up in the Blue Mountains, surrounded by national park. My grandparents lived on a farm. And both my parents worked as ecologists. Which all added up to lots of camping trips and time spent outdoors. It was probably inevitable that nature would become the central focus of my art.
I completed a Bachelor of Visual Art at the University of South Australia, where I received a University Merit Award and on graduation my work was selected for the Port Jackson Press Graduate Printmaking Award, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne. Later I studied at the Australian National University where I obtained First Class Honours.
Since graduation I have held seven solo exhibitions and continue to work towards future exhibitions.
Exhibition history:
Upcoming exhibition: Reflections, Gallery 1, M16 Artspace, Griffith, Canberra, 2019
Pod, Australian National Botanic Gardens Gallery, Canberra, 2019
Locomotion, Braemar Gallery, Blue Mountains, 2017
Mirage, Gallery 03, M16 Artspace, Griffith, Canberra, 2015
Inside Out, Belconnen Arts Centre, Belconnen, Canberra, 2015
Headspace, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, Canberra, 2014
Cut ‘n’ Paste, Belconnen Community Centre, Belconnen, Canberra, 2013
Urban Detritus, Canberra Eye Hospital, Canberra, 2013
I have been fortunate enough to win some awards, including an ArtsACT project grant, the M16 Emerging Artist Award and the Belconnen Community Centre Exhibition Award. I have been selected as a finalist in the Broken Hill Regional Gallery Outback Art Prize, and a finalist in Agendo, David Williams Gallery, Melbourne.