Gemma Smith
Gemma Smith
1978 Born Sydney, Australia.
Education
2005 Colour Theory (Summer course), Parson’s School of Design, New York
2004 Bachelor Visual Arts, Honours, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
1999 Bachelor Visual Arts, Painting Studio, Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Sydney
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Milani Gallery Brisbane
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair
Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
2009 Entanglement Factor, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne.
2008 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2006 Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Paintings and Adaptables, Metro Arts, Brisbane
around around, McK17 Public Art Projects, McKell Building, Government Architect’s Office, Sydney
2004 The Farm Space, Brisbane
2003 Gemma Smith, MOP Projects, Sydney
A Texta in the Briefcase, Briefcase Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 Crawl 2: Three Moves, Seventh, Melbourne & Boxcopy, Brisbane
Territorial Pissings, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne
The Real Thing, Ispwich Art Gallery, Ipswich
Twenty Twenty, UTS Gallery, Sydney (touring)
2009 Cubism & Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
The Shilo Project, Ian Potter Museum of Art (touring)
3d x 5, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
New Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Temperature 2, Museum of Brisbane. Temperature
2008 Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Repeat That Again, University Art Museum, University of Queensland
2007 All is Well that Begins Well and has no End, 80WSE, New York
Abstraction/ Architecture/ Space, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
ABN Ambro Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, ABN Ambro, Sydney
Lion, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Shoebox, Vienna
2006 We’re Open, Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
Against the Amnesiac’s Lifestyle Showroom, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne
Cones of Zontact, Loose Projects, Sydney
Eldorado, Downtown, Adelaide
2005 DEAD FAMOUS; New Australian Painting, Raw Gallery, Berlin
Top Ten, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane
Manya Ginori, Reuben Keehan, Gemma Smith, Peloton Gallery, Sydney
Nascent, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2004 Paranoid Realism, Blindside, Melbourne
Two for One, Two, MOP Projects, Sydney
Out of the Blue, MOP Projects, Sydney
ABN Ambro Contemporary Art Prize Exhibition, ABN Ambro, Sydney
New Drawing: The Line Fell off the Page, parallel program, Biennale of Sydney, UTS Gallery, Sydney
Painting, Virginia Wilson Fine Art, Sydney
2003 MOP, inaugural exhibition, MOP Projects, Sydney
2002 Vicky Brown, Jorge Hubman, Robert Pulie, Gemma Smith, Block Gallery, Sydney.
Tracing, Briefcase Gallery, Sydney
Jason Markou, Nuha Saad, Gemma Smith, Penthouse and Pavement Gallery, Melbourne
Stitching: an Artisan Approach, RMIT Project Space, Melbourne
2001 Big Bang 4, Block Gallery, Sydney
Life continues to be free and easy...,, Imperial Slacks Gallery, Sydney
Suspended, First Draft Gallery and Australia Council for the Arts, Sydney
blue lotus section, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney
2000 art as art..., Newcastle Emerging Artists Space, Newcastle
1999 Gemma Smith and Philip Williams, Gallery 19, Sydney
Classy , Gallery 132, Sydney
1998 Everyday Episode, Gallery 132, Sydney
Awards and Scholarships
2009 LAUNCH: Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship.
Project Grant, Arts Queensland
2008 Moya Dyring Studio, Cite Internationale des arts, Paris, Art Gallery of New South Wales
2006 New Work Grant (Emerging), Australia Council for the Arts
Project Grant, Arts Queensland
2005 Metro Arts – NBC Capital Scholarship (2006)
Dame Joan Sutherland Fund Grant, American Australian Association
Project Grant - Individual Professional Development, Arts Queensland
NAVA Visual Arts and Crafts Grant
1997 University of Sydney Alumni Scholarship, awarded for duration of degree
Chroma Art Prize, Sydney College of the Arts
Selected Bibliography
2010 Mark Pennings, Gemma Smith and the Intuitive Abstract, Eyeline #72, August 2010
Prue Gibson, Gemma Smith, Australian Art Review, August 2010
2009 Emily McCormack, Entanglement Factor (exhibition catalogue), Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2009
2008 Sarah Hetherington, New Work: Gemma Smith, Art World, October 2008
2007 Emma Crimmings (Producer), Queensland Painting Now, Sunday Arts, ABC, November 4 2007
Alison Kubler, Queensland Painters: The New Breed, Art and Australia, August 2007
Betsy Brennan, in living colour, Vogue Living Australia, May-June 2007
2006 Sebastian Smee, Between lines and layers of paint, The Australian, 14 December 2006
Sebastian Smee, Effusions of Colour, The Australian, 23 September 2006
Jason Markou, exhibition catalogue, Paintings and Adaptables, Metro Arts, Brisbane
Alexie Glass and Jeff Kahn, exhibition catalogue, Against the Amnesiac’s Lifestyle Showroom, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, August 2006
2004 Josh Milani, Gemma Smith, exhibition catalogue, The Farm Space, November 2004
Two for One, Two, exhibition catalogue, MOP Projects, November 2004
Reuben Keehan, Out of the Blue, exhibition review, Local Art # 16, October 2004
Out of the Blue, exhibition catalogue, MOP Projects, August 2004
Tara
D’Cruz-Noble and Emil Goh, exhibition catalogue, New Drawing: The Line Fell
off the Page, University
of Technology Gallery, Sydney, June 2004
Gemma
Smith, Running Man, Local Art # 11,
cover image, May 2004
2003 Gemma Smith, Terrace Flats, The Material, centre image collaboration, Local Art # 4, June 2003
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
Queensland College of Art + Griffith Artworks, Brisbane
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Deakin University, Victoria
Murdoch University, Perth
Gadens Lawyers, Sydney & Brisbane
UBS, Sydney
KPMG, Brisbane
NBC Capital, Brisbane
McCullough Robertson, Brisbane
Queensland Investment Corporation, Brisbane
Public Art Projects
2011 Ceiling Artwork; Supreme Court and District Court, George Street
2011 Public sculpture, Carrara Stadium, Gold Coast
2010 Synchro, Adaptable (Red Oxide/Peach); Brisbane Airport Corporation, Brisbane
2009 Chessboard Painting #15 and Chessboard Painting # 14, 400 George Street, Brisbane
2007 Glass lift and corresponding lift shaft, and glass wall work; 333 Ann Street, Brisbane
2007 Wall Work, QUT Visual Arts Department, Brisbane
2006 Around Around, McK17 Public Art Projects, McKell Building, Government Architect’s Office, Sydney