Indecent Haste (The Restructure Part 3). This series investigates a prevalent occurrence throughout varied work places in New Zealand / Aotearoa, – ‘the restructure’. The intention is to describe the process of poorly handled change management, the psychological weaponry used and the ill informed reckonings […]
Vesuvius and You Part 2 (The Restructure). An elaborate game of tactic – but mostly chance – is being had. We see lazy dog bombs, menhirs, ice bergs, broken boats, spears, figureheads formed out of red clay dug up from the volcano closest to where […]
This series of drawings was produced at the Taipei Artist Village Residency Programme in January 2013. The project was about reacting to the site & ideally arriving at a series of distilled or essential qualities, without recourse to the literal. Taipei is a very complicated […]
I began this series by documenting (with photography) areas of Oakley Creek (Auckland, New Zealand) near where I work and live. The site is of historical and environmental import. I was especially interested in the Mount Albert end where the restoration is not yet […]
Celanie (2012) Celanie: Poems & Drawings after Paul Celan. Poems by Jack Ross & Drawings by Emma Smith. Introduction by Jack Ross. Afterword by Bronwyn Lloyd. ISBN: 978-0-473-22484-4. Pania Samplers, 3. Auckland: Pania Press, 2012. 168 pp. [cover design: Ellen Portch / Cover image: Emma […]
Images of stillness and silence began to interest me . These works were painted mostly at night in the winter time. My studio at the time, had large windows and the colours of fading light and silhouetted forms permeated the works.
Emma Smith ,You pulled over to write it down, Mixed media on paper, 420 x 594 mm 2011 Working on paper has always been a staple – the Personality of things is still a concern albeit less obviously here . As always there is a […]
Clown tamer, Mixed media on paper, 210 x 150 mm, 2006 Wolfwhistler, Mixed media on paper, 210 x 150 mm, 2006 Works from series Mein leibes Krankenhaus were completed in London in 2006 and 2007.They were in some part based on my imaginings of a strange […]
Emma Smith 