In the exhibition Blue Highway, Helen Smith continues her enquiry into the minimalist oeuvre. An interest in social commentary provides the titles for the works, based on graffiti found in the public spaces of the Inner West, Sydney and Venice, Italy. By coupling a pedestrian viewpoint with a fascination for quantum physics, Smith synthesises a formalist geometry that attempts to describe a place somewhere between the footpath and the Universe.
Helen Smith was born in 1963 in Wiradjuri country (Cooma), New South Wales. In 2000, she graduated from Curtin University of Technology, with a Bachelor of Arts. Since 2002 she has been an active member of the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA). Together with Jeremy Kirwan-Ward she has collaborated on a number of site specific, large-scale wall works including installations in the Art Gallery of Western Australia, in Hegenheim, France and at the Institut Fur Alles Mogliche in Berlin.
Her works are included in the collections of National Gallery of Australia, the Daimler Collection in Berlin, Louis Vuitton Collection, Artbank, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Australian Embassy in Madrid, Curtin University Collection, The University of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Bankwest, PS Collection Netherlands, Hebel_121 Collection and various private collections in Australia and Europe.
Helen Smith
Untitled #3 (In Common) 2022
oil on linen
20.5 × 41 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #9 & 10 2022
oil on linen
35.5 × 60 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #4 (Una libertà autorizzata... non e'una libertà') 2022
oil on linen
40.5 × 76 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #8 ('SQUAT THE WORLD') 2022
oil on linen
30 × 35.5 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #9 ('SQUAT THE WORLD') 2022
oil on linen
30 × 35.5 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Blue Highway #53 2022
oil on linen
137 × 213 cm
Helen Smith
Blue Highway #52 2022
oil on linen
153 × 153 cm
Helen Smith
Blue Highway #51 2021
oil on linen
137 × 213 cm
Helen Smith
Untitled #2 (In Common) 2022
oil on linen
20 × 20 cm
Helen Smith
Untitled #1 (In Common) 2022
oil on linen
20 × 20 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #2 ('SQUAT THE WORLD') 2022
oil on linen
35.5 × 35.5 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #3 ('ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS WILL BE') 2022
oil on linen
35.5 × 35.5 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #12 2022
oil on linen
40.5 × 38 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #11 (cause thief) 2022
oil on linen
40.5 × 28 × 4 cm
Helen Smith
Assemblage #1 ('Donne Libere!') 2022
oil on linen
35.5 × 35.5 × 4 cm
