Jennifer Smyth

An open bite etching of an imagined city, created after viewing historical images of inner Melbourne, attempting to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present.

An open bite etching based on a number of historical images of inner Melbourne. Combining images, shapes and forms to communicate absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present.

An open bite etching, based on an image from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs of the inner city, altered to attempt to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present.

An open bite etching of an imagined city, created after viewing historical images of inner Melbourne, attempting to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present.

An open bite etching of an imagined and abstracted city, created after viewing historical images of inner Melbourne, attempting to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present.

An open bite etching, based on combining a number of images from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs of the inner city, altered to attempt to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with a past peeking into the present.

An open bite etching, creating a city, a street and a feeling. Based on a number of images from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs of the inner city, altered to attempt to represent absence and presence in the urban form - with a past peeking into the present

An open bite etching of an imagined city, created after viewing historical images of inner Melbourne, attempting to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present. Printed using a number of colours over rolled to draw the viewer into the image.

An open bite etching of an imagined city, created after viewing historical images of inner Melbourne, attempting to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present. Printed using a number of colours over rolled to draw the viewer into the image.

An open bite etching of an imagined city, created after viewing historical images of inner Melbourne, attempting to represent absence and presence in the urban form, with the past peeking into the present. Printed using a number of colours over rolled to draw the viewer into the image.

Open bite etchings, printed with white ink on black paper. To see how the image would age when printed in black and white.