Bernadette Smith

PAINTERLY ABSTRACTION

Bernadette Smith has been a practising artist and art educator for more than a decade. While living in Singapore she was a full time lecturer at Singapore’s National Institute of Education at Nanyang Technological University before returning to Australia in 2000 to lecture in art history theory at Charles Darwin University in Northern Territory. Since 2002 she has been based in her home town of Newcastle.

Ms.Smith has an extensive international exhibition record with work included in collections in Germany, France, Australia and the USA. In Singapore her work was exhibited at Art Forum Gallery, Chijmes Caldwell Gallery, the Australian High Commission and Shell Discovery Art Exhibition in which Chairman Yeo noted: “There is a tremendous amount of movement, colour and texture in her creations”. In 2000 she had a solo exhibition at Seniwati Gallery of Women Artists in Ubud, Indonesia. Last year she was selected for the Mosman Art Prize and was highly commended for painting in the Gosford Art Prize.

Her art practice has included painting, photography, film and installation. Transgressing the boundaries of different media her artwork has challenged nature’s exile, globalisation and the postmodern spiritual void. In recent years her work has developed into a form of painterly abstraction using automatic writing and elemental forces of nature and the human psyche.

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