• The Living Room Visual Essay
  • Selected Work
  • About
  • CV

Laura Smith

  • The Living Room Visual Essay
  • Selected Work
  • About
  • CV

About

I am a multi-disciplinary artist and architect. My work revolves around themes of belonging, connection to culture and place through the processes of making and storytelling. With an intersectional background, I see systems of exclusion, displacement, and disconnection as universal human experiences that continue to impact us all. My work seeks to reveal the dominant yet evasive oppressive structures at work, to research alternative histories, and to speculate on alternative futures.

I am interested in knowledge production. I make art to learn and to make sense of things. I work to decolonise [myself] through expansive whole-of-body art making. I play with social and spatial relationships and explore our need to manifest material culture. I create tangible and ephemeral work that evokes a sense of place, where everyday ceremony and ritual can play out.

I currently live and work in Naarm (Melbourne) and respectfully acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I work, the Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. I pay my respects to elders; past, and present, and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. Always was always will be.

 

Contact

 

laurageorginasmith@gmail.com

Day 1 @artresidencyfiji. Settling in nicely. Thanks @lancasterpressfiji and @dinah_caroline for your warm welcome!
Riso print tests for a project about my grandmother and the concept of returning home. Thanks to @treepapergallery - looking forward to experimenting more on Sunday.
An installation using my iPhone photo archive over the last decade. Turns out I’m obsessed with windows - views to, views through, a small space between two worlds.
#march4justice
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 💓✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💓#internationalwomensday
Testing projecting images onto wool threaded through a timber frame - mixing hard and soft crafts. The wool creates an undulating surface giving the projected image a 3D quality.
Work in progress: 1:10 maquette and first cut of timber pieces of Making Room. Making Room is my extended exploration based on room dividers. How can these structures not only divide space but also create space through formal expression? Just one of
Workshop with a view 🙌🏽 so excited to be making and creating @thepickershut for the next two weeks...
Testing some installation ideas based on folding screens through 1:10 models in balsa and detail paper #modelmaking #maquettes #maquettesculpture
Finally complete! (ish) My room divider made of walnut, brass and paper with interchangeable screens. Originally designed for my studio as both a functional screen and to display work in progress. Already thinking how I can adapt the design for home