Jennifer Smyth
ARTIST
PRINTS 2014
A selection of prints from 2014 that review the development of Melbourne - its past and its future - its socio-spatial patterns of development.
Image: 12.5cm x 12.5cm Print 1 in a series of 3 works created for the Ottawa School of Art Fifth International Miniature Print Biennale Exhibition 2014. Image created from images from F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs
Image: 12.5cm x 12.5cm Print 2 in a series of 3 works created for the Ottawa School of Art Fifth International Miniature Print Biennale Exhibition 2014. mage created from images from F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs - abstracted - and incorporating my favourite parts of a number of images.
Image: 12.5cm x 12.5cm Print 3 in a series of 3 works created for the Ottawa School of Art Fifth International Miniature Print Biennale Exhibition 2014. mage created from images from F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs
The first in the Urban Blueprint series of etchings with open bite that incorporates the city skyline of today - while featuring the city landscape of the past. My post modern work exploring development and decay in the same print.
Image: 40cm x 30cm An open bite etching created along similar lines to the Urban blueprint - to communicate the modern skyline with the buildings of the past.
Image: 40cm x 30cm Another open bite etching created along similar lines to the Urban blueprint - using images of historical buildings I photographed in present day.
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm An open bite etching -the first in a series that features inner city buildings and development with a graph sourced from my urban planning studies, to make commentary on social housing, housing prices, mortgage stress, and socio-spatial development in Melbourne and Australia. This work is based on a photograph I took of Smith Street, Collingwood.
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm An open bite etching -the first in a series that features buildings and development with a graph sourced from my urban planning studies, to make commentary on social housing, housing prices, mortgage stress, and socio-spatial development in Melbourne and Australia. This print is based on an image from a housing estate development in outer suburban Sydney
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm An open bite etching -the first in a series that features inner city buildings and development with a graph sourced from my urban planning studies, to make commentary on social housing, housing prices, mortgage stress, and socio-spatial development in Melbourne and Australia. This work is based on two photographs I took of inner and CBD Melbourne,
Image: 22.5cm x 15cm An open bite etching -the first in a series that features a graph sourced from my urban planning studies, to make commentary on social housing, housing prices, mortgage stress, and socio-spatial development in Melbourne and Australia. This work is based on a photograph I took of Fitzroy
Image: 30cm x 30cm An open bite etching -the first in a series that features a graph sourced from my urban planning studies, to make commentary on social housing, housing prices, mortgage stress, and socio-spatial development in Melbourne and Australia. This work is based on a photograph I took on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.
Work produced for the Australian Print Workshop Impressions 2014 fundraising exhibition. An open bite etching of the St Patrick's Cathedral and East Melbourne floating over Smith Street in Ftizroy
Work produced for the Brooklyn Arts project print exchange. A hunter aiming into the distance. Open bite etching with colour roll up printing over traditional black and white technique.
The old neighbours; The city exposed; and Urban development I form a series of works that represent the urban environment embodied through, and by reference to, the collective memory. (Fourth print not utilised in this series)