Art Painting by Bernadette Smith: Artzine interview

Bernadette Smith has an extensive international exhibition record with solo shows in Berlin, San Francisco, Sydney, Perth and Singapore. Her work is included in collections in Germany, France, Britain, Singapore, Spain, Australia and the USA. She has been a finalist for the Mosman Art Prize, Fishers Ghost Art Award and was highly commended at the Gosford art prize. In 2020 she graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Sydney College of the Arts and featured in the 10th Canberra Festival of Art. Recently she was selected for an artist residency at Bundanon and has exhibited at Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Perth Centre for Photography, Newcastle Art Gallery and the State Library of NSW. Her painting relates to the psychological and material traces inherent within the beachfront, coastal forests, littoral zones and hinterlands of Australia representing liminal spaces where the land meets the sea. The impasto surfaces and viscous fusions of oil paint achieved by constant reworking of the surface and underlying layers express the physicality of the land. Between cycles of fire, drought, floods and regrowth somehow the trees survive and eventually prosper revealing the corporeal legacy of the seasons but can never be taken for granted. These paintings need time to observe slowly allowing the layers of meaning communicate on an intuitive level.

Visit her studio in Alexandria, Sydney by appointment or email bernadettesmithart@yahoo.com.au for more info

full CV here https://bernadettesmithcv.blogspot.com