Martin Smith is featured in forthcoming group exhibition at Metro Arts, ‘Precision: The Art of Cutting Images’. Curated by Stephanie Lindquist and Minqi Gu, this exhibition investigates the process of paper cutting as a medium, exploring how it transcends folk traditions into contemporary art forms and disciplines. Visitors to the exhibition can see title, by […]
A suite of new works by Martin Smith are now on display at the Hyatt Centric Hotel in Melbourne. Smith was commissioned by the hotel to create this body of work for the newly opened 5-star cosmopolitan hotel. Guests staying at the hotel can spot Martin Smith’s stunning photographic works installed around the hotel lobby, […]
Martin Smith’s work, ‘Fix it up’, has been featured in the latest issue of Artlines magazine. Produced in 2010, the artist recently gifted this work to the QAGOMA collection. In the article, writer Ellie Buttrose delves into the theme behind ‘Fix it up’. Through the juxtaposition of photographic imagery and cut lettering, this work touches […]
Jan Murphy Gallery is participating in the Brisbane Art and Design Festival 2019. In conjunction with the festival program, Martin Smith will create a large-scale text installation work on the exterior wall of the gallery. Exemplifying the artist’s continued use of photography and text, ‘You workin?’ 2019 will be visible to passers-by and traffic on Brunswick […]
A solo exhibition by Martin Smith is being held at the newly relocated POP Gallery in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley. The exhibition, The Narrated Self, showcases Smith’s photographs that include excised texts of short personal stories. The Narrated Self POP Gallery 21 August – 6 September 2018 For more information, please click here. Image credit: Martin […]
Verso is a curated online platform that publishes texts from contemporary artists, writers and curators. Having recently completed a three-month residency at NARS Foundation in New York in late 2017, Martin Smith’s series of written reflections and photographs have been published online by Verso. These reflections offer a fantastic insight into the artist’s experience during […]
Martin Smith’s solo exhibition, ‘and that’s what tortures me’, is current until Saturday 6 August 2016. To view the exhibition online, please click here Image credit: Portrait of Martin Smith.