Jennifer Smyth
ARTIST
WORKS FROM 2015
A selection of prints from 2015 that explore Melbourne's social housing waiting lists, and residents' displacement and exclusion as further gentrification takes place in the inner city. As well as some explorations in colour in some space themed images.
Image: 22.5cm x 15cm Etching with open bite based on an image from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs. Taken in the 1930s to review the slums and housing conditions in inner city Melbourne. Image source: State Library Victoria
Image: 22.5cm x 15cm Etching with open bite based on an image from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs. Taken in the 1930s to review the slums and housing conditions in inner city Melbourne. Image source: State Library Victoria
Image: 22.5cm x 15cm Etching with open bite based on an image from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs. Taken in the 1930s to review the slums and housing conditions in inner city Melbourne. Image source: State Library Victoria
Image: 2ms, 2.2m 2.5m Colour silk cut relief prints on Hosho roll. Based on images of present day Fitzroy and Collingwood, with images of children from the 1930s, images of the Social housing estates of the 1960s, their residents and hung in a way to suggest the unending waiting list for social housing of present day.
The final work shot from the side.
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm Abstraction of the plate for Survey of inner city slums c1930 III - to see what other images would emerge when using over roll with traditional printing. Image source: Herald Sun
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm Etching with open bite based on an image from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs. Taken in the 1930s to review the slums and housing conditions in inner city Melbourne. Image source: Herald Sun
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm Etching with open bite to abstract the image. Based on a composite of images from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs. Taken in the 1930s to review the slums and housing conditions in inner city Melbourne. Image source: Herald Sun
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm Etching with open bite to abstract the image. Based on a composite of images from the F. Oswald Barnett Collection of slum photographs. Taken in the 1930s to review the slums and housing conditions in inner city Melbourne. Image source: Herald Sun
Image: 15cm x 22.5cm New work in progress - exploring the roll up printing technique and mixing transparent medium with my ink.
Image: 40cm x 30cm The second in the urban blueprint series, depicting historic Melbourne with contemporary Melbourne. Combining two different images I photographed to form a work that typifies inner Melbourne buildings, and St Patrick's Cathedral.
Image: 40cm x 30cm The third in the urban blueprint series, depicting historic Melbourne with contemporary Melbourne. Combining two different images I photographed to form a work that typifies inner Melbourne buildings and laneways.
Relief prints on Awagami paper, with the faceless children printed on top of the terrace houses in Fitzroy. The Social housing estate looms in the background.
Further relief prints on Awagami paper, with the faceless children printed on top of the terrace houses in Fitzroy. The Social housing estate looms in the background.
Some paper sculpture of the children of the social housing waiting lists.
Colour relief print on Awagami paper. Print created for the Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition 2015