Jennifer Smyth
ARTIST
WORKS FROM 2016
A selection of prints and a painting that explore Melbourne's housing history, and residents' experience of displacement and exclusion as gentrification takes place in the inner city.
Oil painting
Miniprint 10cm x 10cm. 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
Miniprint 10cm x 10cm. 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
Miniprint 10cm x 10cm. 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
Miniprint 10cm x 10cm. 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: 30cm x 40cm Open bite etching utilising a historical photograph of Melbourne (from State Library Victoria collection.)
Image: 30cm x 40cm Open bite etching with chine colle. Etching with chine colle. Based on a historical photograph, with a graphic from a development application overlaid.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Open bite etching with chine colle. Etching with chine colle. Based on the area of development included in an development application, with a graphic from another development application overlaid.
Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.
Image: 30cm x 40cm Etching with chine colle. Based on an image from development applications around the City of Yarra highlighting the area affected by the potential new development.