Erin Smith

Artists have long been fascinated by the conceptual link between words, images and ideas, and Erin Smiths 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.

BACKGROUND

2008
Venturi Method Airbrush
2007
Bachelor of Design Arts
Australian Academy of Design
1998
Cert IV Printing Graphic Arts
Southbank Institute of Tafe
Exhibitions
2009
Tiger Translate - Copenhagen
Gertrude St Projection Festival
The Winter Show, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
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

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