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» 13/12/2024: In October 2025, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia will present a solo exhibition of recent large-scale ceramic sculptural installations by Yasmin Smith. Curated by Jane Devery, Senior Curator, Exhibitions, and Manya Sellers, Associate Curator, the exhibition will present Smith’s Seine River Basin (2019), commissioned for Cosmopolis 2: rethinking the human, Centre Pompidou, Paris and acquired for the MCA Collection in 2020, in conversation with recent and new works.
» 25/01/2024: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the 4th edition of the Lagos Biennial, Nigeria, invited by Co-Artistic Director Kathryn Weir. The biennial is located at Tafawa Balewa Square, "a one hundred and fifty thousand square metre expanse of concrete which served as a racecourse under the British Colonial Administration and was later redesigned as a military parade ground. Within the layered historical monument, the 2024 edition of the Biennial provokes reflection on construction of the nation-state." Smith's work, "Wound Response, uses natural liquid latex extracted from Amazonian rubber trees, filling cracks and crevices of the concrete structure of the Square, a wound response from the architecture itself, drawing connections between the histories and ongoing environmental and social legacies of colonial plantation systems across tropical geographies." Exhibition dates: 3 — 10 February, 2024.
» 03/10/2023: The University of South Australia today announced Yasmin Smith as recipient of the 2024 Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship. The scholarship provides institutional fees for an academic year of study, a $ 70,000 tax-free allowance and travel expenses to a leading international art school of their choice.
» 12/09/2023: Yasmin Smith is presenting as part of a panel on the subject of Deep Time as part of an annual Interdisciplinary Forum at Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, following a keynote address by Professor Gerald McMaster, curator, artist, author, and professor emeritus OCAD University, Toronto. 23.09.23, 10 — 4. Follow this link for further details.
» 30/08/2023: It is a pleasure to announce that the University of Melbourne has acquired an 11-piece group of Yasmin Smith's Forest. Forest was exhibited at The Commercial in 2022. It is Smith's most ambitious work to date, comprising 11 ceramic glazes made from fly ash from 11 coal-fired power stations in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Arranged tonally from darkest to lightest glazes, representing the youngest most 'impure' brown coals to the oldest and most 'pure' black coals respectively, Forest is a timeline dating 18 million to 200 million years and represents the afterlife of plants, the dissipation of other elements and the archiving of carbon as evidenced in Smith's glazes.
» 26/06/2023: Yasmin Smith is in conversation with Senior Curator, Kelly McDonald, in her exhibition Sediment at Mosman Art Gallery. Wednesday 28.06.23, 6 — 8pm. Free, bookings requested via this link.
» 12/06/2023: Opening this weekend at Mosman Art Gallery is Yasmin Smith: Sediment, the artist's first solo exhibition in a public institution. The exhibition is curated by Kelly McDonald, Assistant Gallery Director/Senior Curator, Mosman Art Gallery, and forms the basis of the first monographic publication on the artist with newly commissioned texts that will become available in coming months. Opening reception Friday 16.06.23, 6—8pm, exhibition: 17.06.23 — 10.09.23.
» 21/04/2023: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith shortlisted for the Ramsay Art Prize 2023 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Open to Australian artists under 40 working in any medium, the acquisitive Ramsay Art Prize aims to support and encourage contemporary Australian artists to make their best work at a pivotal moment in their career, with the winning artist receiving $100,000. The 2023 panel of judges comprises of Aaron Seeto, Director of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Nusantara, Jakarta; Perth-based visual artist and creative producer Erin Coates; and Nici Cumpston OAM, Artistic Director of Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art and Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The winner is announced 26.05.23.
» 15/02/2023: The Commercial would like to acknowledge Yasmin Smith on her achievement of being shortlisted to represent Australia at the 2024 Venice Biennale. Smith together with Kathryn Weir were one of five artist-curator teams shortlisted by the Australia Council on the advice of a panel of independent industry advisors including national and international visual arts experts. “The Australia Council wishes to thank industry advisors Stephen Gilchrist, Carol Yinghua Lu, Victoria Lynn, Hammad Nasar, and Colin Walker for their considered deliberation in reaching this decision.”
» 31/01/2023: Yasmin Smith is working towards her first solo museum exhibition. Mosman Art Gallery will present Yasmin Smith: Angophora 17.06.23 — 10.09.23, curated by Kelly McDonald.
» 16/01/2023: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting part of Forest, her recent installation featuring eleven coal fly ash glazes, in We Are Electric at UQ Art Museum, Brisbane, curated by Anna Briers. Exhibition: 14.02.23 — 24.06.23.
» 12/08/2022: AVAILABLE NOW: Eucalyptusdom publication, a major new book accompanying the Eucalyptusdom exhibition, now in its final weeks at Powerhouse, Sydney. Exhibition until 28.08.22. Eucalyptusdom has been developed by Agatha Gothe-Snape as Powerhouse Artistic Associate alongside co-curators Emily McDaniel, Sarah Rees and Nina Earl. The exhibition features a ceramic installation commissioned from Yasmin Smith. The Eucalyptusdom book features a 32-page folio of photographs by Amanda Williams commissioned by the Powerhouse as part of Williams' ongoing Creative Industries Residency. “Eucalyptusdom reckons with Australia’s cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree. This publication expands upon a body of research and creative output generated via the eponymous exhibition at Powerhouse. It showcases the more than 20 creative practitioners commissioned to produce new works in dialogue with 500+ objects from the Powerhouse collection. The publication also offers insights from the award-winning exhibition design team and includes a new work of literary non-fiction by acclaimed Australian author Ashley Hay, a 32-page folio of art photography by Amanda Williams, and an oral history shared by D’harawal Elder Aunty Fran Bodkin. Edited by Sally Rose. Design by Studio Ongarato.” Eucalyptusdom book: AUD 99.00. Available at Powerhouse via this link.
» 11/07/2022: It’s a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith’s ceramic installation, Terroir, commissioned for the 2021 TarraWarra Biennial and exhibited at Melbourne Art Fair earlier this year has been acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
» 07/04/2022: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Slow Churn, at The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery, Queensland. “In the face of a changing climate, global shifts in agriculture and food production and the increased recognition of traditional land management strategies, artists in Slow Churn explore the delicate interactions and interdependencies that exist between us and our natural world.” Exhibiting artists: Zanny Begg, Lindy Lee, Mylyn Nguyen, Jody Rallah, Yasmin Smith, Judy Watson, Elizabeth Willing. Exhibition 09/04/22 – 03/07/22.
» 11/02/2022: The Commercial is looking forward to exhibiting at Melbourne Art Fair at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 17 - 20 February, 2022, with a group exhibition of works by Gunter Christmann, Patrick Hartigan, Yasmin Smith and Amanda Williams in Booth E2. The Sydney gallery will be closed during Melbourne Art Fair week. Contact the gallery via this link to receive an advance preview of works.
» 31/01/2022: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Yasmin Smith will be in conversation at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney Friday 04/02/22, 1-2pm as part of the exhibition, Eucalyptusdom. "Eucalyptusdom reckons with our cultural history and ever-changing relationship with the gum tree, presenting over 400 objects from the Powerhouse Collection alongside 17 newly commissioned works by creative practitioners working across the fields of design, architecture, film, applied arts and performance." Eucalyptusdom has been instigated by Gothe-Snape in her ongoing role as embedded artist at the Powerhouse and developed in collaboration with curators Nina Earl, Emily McDaniel, and Sarah Rees. Smith has been commissioned by the PHM to make a new ceramic installation for the exhibition. The conversation between Gothe-Snape and Smith is the first in a series of monthly artist-led tours of the exhibition. T he tour is free. Bookings can be made via the PHM website via this link.
» 16/12/2021: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting a new wall-based ceramic installation in Rethinking Nature at Museo Madre, Naples (IT) curated by Kathryn Weir and Ilaria Marion. Smith’s work, Terra Dei Fuochi, focusses on a symbiotic earth-healing relationship between humans and plants. The work is named after a region of Campania in Southern Italy, between the North of Napoli and the South of Caserta, known to have been heavily polluted through the mismanagement of urban waste disposal and an illegal Camorra-led waste disposal enterprise, beginning in the 1980s. The name Terra Dei Fuochi describes the fires and plumes of black smoke that were commonly seen in agricultural fields and along roadsides where waste was illegally burnt and buried. Smith conceived the project establishing a collaboration with a Professor of Agronomy, Massimo Fagnano from the University of Napoli, who provided Smith with 500kg of poplar wood and leaves from an experimental phytoremediation plantation, an open-air laboratory called San Giuseppiello. This land was seized by the government in 2008 and the process of phytoremediation began in 2015 with the planting of 20,000 poplar trees. Labour source is an ongoing concern in Smith’s work. Due to covid travel restrictions stopping Smith from going to Italy, Terra Dei Fuochi was executed by local ceramicist, Angelica Tulimiero, to Smith’s instructions. Smith exhibited a related work in Sustaining Assembly - Pratiche artistic per una transizione ecologica dal basso’ at PAV, Turin, earlier this year. exhibition dates: 17/12/21 – 02/05/21
» 18/11/2021: Yasmin Smith's ambitious ceramic installation, Open Vase Central Leader Widow Maker, acquired by Shepparton Art Museum in 2017, is on exhibition as part of Flow: Stories of River, Earth and Sky in the SAM Collection to coincide with the reopening of the new SAM from 20/11/21.
» 18/10/2021: Yasmin Smith’s Salt Harvesting Vessels, a component from her vast ceramic installation, Drowned River Valley (2017-2018), produced for the 21st Biennale of Sydney, curated by Mami Kataoka, is currently on display at the Powerhouse Museum, Ultimo, as part of Clay Dynasty: 50 Years of Australian Studio Ceramics. Drowned River Valley is a site-specific process-based exploration of the presence of salt in the waters around Cockatoo Island and in the Parramatta River and the role that salt plays in the river’s ecology and in human-based socio-economic systems historically along the river. The huge volume of material components of Drowned River Valley was collected and processed by Smith over the course of 2017-2018 and continued during the months of the Biennale on Cockatoo Island. There, hundreds of salt-glazed salt-harvesting vessels made from clay that Smith produced from the pulverised sandstone waste from the nearby Barangaroo headland excavation, were produced and fired on site in a purpose-built salt kiln. As part of the work’s process, Smith invited visitors to the Island during the Biennale to contribute their labour to the project by hand modelling small salt harvesting cups. The salt needed for the salt kiln firing process for the cups came from thousands of litres of Sydney Harbour water which Smith evaporated both by months-long solar evaporation off-site and a more accelerated evaporation process over steel grid furnaces onsite during the course of the Biennale exhibition. Clay Dynasty at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney continues until 29/01/23.
» 07/10/2021: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith selected for the 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT10) at Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. Smith will be exhibiting her 2018 installation, Flooded Rose Red Basin, made in Chengdu, China and exhibited in Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence in Chengdu (presented by Centre Pompidou and the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation). We are thrilled also to announce that the entire Flooded Rose Red Basin ceramic installation has been acquired for the QAG|GOMA collection. APT10 exhibition dates: 04/12/21 – 28/04/22.
» 31/03/2021: Yasmin Smith's major new ceramic installation, Terroir, is now on exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art as part of the TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall. Terroir is the result of Smith working directly with grape vines and viniculturists on the TarraWarra Estate. Images of Yasmin Smith's Terroir are now on The Commercial website. exhibition at TarraWarra Museum of Art 26/03/21 - 11/07/21.
» 25/03/2021: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting two recently-fired ceramic branch bundles from her seminal 2015 Ntaria Fence glaze project in the group exhibition On Earth at QUT Art Museum in Brisbane. Curated by Sarah Werkmeister, "On Earth traces conceptions of landscape and the environment as it is expressed and represented through the poetic devices of art." Artists include Robert Andrew, Ray Beattie, Ian Burn, Michael Cook, Dean Cross, Nici Cumpston, Bonita Ely, Emma Fielden, Greg Forsyth, Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori, Kinly Grey, Dale Harding, Isaac Walter Jenner, Jillian Namatjira, Claude Pannka, Toni Robertson, Joe Rootsey, Kate Shaw, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Yasmin Smith, Warraba Weatherall, Keemon Williams, Women’s Domestic Needlework Group and two historical works by artists once known. exhibition 27/03/21 - 06/06/21
» 10/03/2021: The Museum of Contemporary Art Australia has included Yasmin Smith's recently acquired ceramic installation, Seine River Basin, commissioned in 2019 by Centre Pompidou (Paris), in the new collection exhibition, MCA Collection: Perspectives on place. Seine River Basin will be on view at the MCA until 04/09/22.
» 01/02/2021: Yasmin Smith was commissioned to make a new work for the group exhibition Tree Story at Monash University Museum of Art. Tree Story, curated by Charlotte Day with Dr Brian Martin, Associate Dean, Indigenous, Monash Art Design & Architecture, "brings together creative practices from around the world to create a ‘forest’ of ideas relating to critical environmental and sustainability issues. At its foundation—or roots—are Indigenous ways of knowing and a recognition of trees as our ancestors and family." Artists include Brook Garru Andrew (AU), Yto Barrada (FR/MA), Berdaguer & Péjus (FR), Joseph Beuys (DE), Tania Bruguera (CU), Hayley Panangka Coulthard (AU), Nici Cumpston (AU), Agnes Denes (HU/US), Yanni Florence (AU), Ceal Floyer (UK), Henrik Håkansson (SE/DE), Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti (PS/IT), Beth Mbitjana Inkamala (AU), Judith Pungarta Inkamala (AU), Tim Johnson (AU), Reena Saini Kallat (IN), Peter Kennedy (AU), Olga Kisseleva (RU/FR), Janet Laurence (AU), MAIX Reserved Forest (MY), Brian Martin (AU), Kent Morris (AU), Peter Mungkuri OAM (AU), Uriel Orlow (CH/UK), Jill Orr (AU), Katie Paterson (UK), Ed Ruscha (US), Yasmin Smith (AU), Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (BR/ES) and Stelarc (AU). exhibition 06/02/21 - 10/04/21.
» 20/11/2020: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith, announced this week as an exhibiting artist in the TarraWarra Biennial 2021: Slow Moving Waters, curated by Nina Miall. The exhibition will feature 24 Australian artists making new works that explore ideas of slowness, deceleration, drift and the elasticity of time. Smith is developing a new ceramic installation for the exhibition. 27/03/21 – 11/07/21
» 01/10/2020: Huge congratulations to Yasmin Smith who tonight was awarded the $30,000 2020 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship for a mid-career/established artist for her ceramic installation Flooded Rose Red Basin. The award exhibition is at the newly-opened Sydney College of the Arts Gallery on the main campus of the University of Sydney. Exhibition details: SCA Gallery, The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Scholarship, 02/10/20 - 13/11/20, Monday - Friday, 11am-5pm, via appointment only: email: [email protected]
» 13/08/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith’s Bundles of Ntaria branches 4 and 8, early examples of the artist’s site-derived glazes, have been acquired by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
» 19/07/2020: It is a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith’s major ceramic installation, Seine River Basin, exhibited in 2019 at Centre Pompidou, Paris, in Cosmopolis #2 - Rethinking the Human, curated by Kathryn Weir, has been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
» 30/05/2020: 'Portraits of the artists in isolation' - Yasmin Smith in today's Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
» 18/05/2020: The Commercial will be open 11am - 4pm for the final two Saturdays of our current group exhibition, The Humanity. The exhibition presents two new works each by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and two late works by Gunter Christmann. Saturdays 23/05/20 and 30/05/20.
» 22/04/2020: As part of the program for The Humanity, a group exhibition with new work by Diena Georgetti, Patrick Hartigan, Oscar Perry, Jude Rae and Yasmin Smith and late work by Gunter Christmann, Oscar Perry will be presenting a music set on The Commercial’s Instagram, from 3pm AEST Saturday 25/04/20. We hope you can join us. The artists in the exhibition will be taking over The Commercial’s Instagram each week of the exhibition: Oscar Perry: 29/04/20 - 02/05/20; Patrick Hartigan: 06/05/20 - 09/05/20; Yasmin Smith: 13/05/20 - 16/05/20; Jude Rae: 20/05/20 - 23/05/20; Diena Georgetti: 27/05/20 - 30/05/20.
» 08/11/2019: Full video documentation, by Associate Curator Ilaria Marion, of Yasmin Smith's artist talk at Centre Pompidou, Paris, on 07/11/19 as part of the public programs for Cosmopolis #2. 50 minutes.
» 06/11/2019: An interview with Yasmin Smith on the Centre Pompidou's YouTube channel about her work, Seine River Basin, for Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human.
» 02/11/2019: Yasmin Smith is giving a one hour artist talk, Decolonialising Ecologies, at Centre Pompidou, Paris, as part of the public programs associated with the exhibition, Cosmopolis #2 - rethinking the human. Thursday 07/11/19, 6.30-800pm in the Cosmopolis exhibition.
» 01/11/2019: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in a group exhibition of Parramatta Artist Studios artists (Kalanjay Dhir, Rebecca Gallo, Yasmin Smith, Anthony Macris and Tom Polo) at the Ideas Platform at Artspace, Sydney. Opening Friday 15/11/19, 6-8pm. Exhibition 16/11/19 - 15/12/19. Smith will be presenting a reconfiguration of part of her ceramic installation produced in Chengdu, China last year for Cosmopolis #1.5 for the Centre Pompidou.
» 24/10/2019: Cosmopolis #2 - rethinking the human, curated by Kathryn Weir at Centre Pompidou, Paris is now open and continues until 23/12/19. Documentation of Yasmin Smith's major new ceramic installation, Seine River Basin, is now on The Commercial website.
» 19/07/2019: Yasmin Smith is on residency in Paris for four months, supported by the Australia Coucil for the Arts, researching and developing a new ceramic work to be exhibited at Centre Pompidou in late October as part of Cosmopolis #2.0, curated by Kathryn Weir. The current project follows Yasmin’s work in Chengdu, China last year where she also participated in #1.5 of the Pompidou’s new biennial exhibition platform.
» 04/05/2019: Yasmin Smith has been on a residency in Tasmania during April developing a new work for the Australian Ceramics Triennial. She has created two new glazes from two species of hydrowood, trees that have been submerged since the 1980s from the damming of the Lower Pieman River during the building of the hydroelectric scheme. Images of her three-part installation, Lower Pieman, are now on The Commercial website. Lower Pieman presents a record of grand scale human intervention into nature at the point at which carbon, hydrogen and oxygen cycle though the ecosystem as water and wood. Australian Ceramics Triennial, 1- 4 May.
» 04/01/2019: As Cosmopolis #1.5 - Enlarged Intelligence in Chengdu, China, draws to a close (ends 06/01/19), individual artist pages including video documentary footage with Yasmin Smith are now published on the Cosmopolis #1.5 website.
» 21/12/2018: The digital catalogue documenting the 21st Biennale of Sydney: Superposition - Equilibrium & Engagement (curated by Mami Kataoka) is now available online, with new essay and images for Yasmin Smith's Drowned River Valley.
» 13/12/2018: Photodocumentation of Yasmin Smith's work and seven-week residency for Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou, in Chengdu, China, is now on The Commercial's website.
» 02/11/2018: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting work with the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Chengdu, China. The exhibition, curated by Kathryn Weir, is titled 'Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence' and presents artworks and programs by almost 60 artists and artist groups. 'The Cosmopolis platform, launched by the Centre Pompidou in 2016, constructs bridges between new forms of artistic practice and research, between conceived geographies and histories. Cosmopolis #1.5 engages with urban and rural space and the shifts in the dynamic between them due to the digital economy and other technological, ecological and cultural shifts. Yasmin Smith's work represents the culmination of a residency in Sichuan's "Red Basin" where she worked with bamboo, eucalyptus and tea plantations, finding ways of materializing the ecological intelligence of different species of plants, through combining ceramics with chemistry and environmental science.' Exhibition dates: 03/11/18 - 06/01/19
» 05/10/2018: Yasmin Smith is currently in residence in Chengdu, China, developing a new ceramics installation for Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, a major exhibition organised by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with the Mao Jihong Arts Foundation, Chengdu. Smith’s resulting work will be presented in an exhibition 02/11/18 – 06/01/19. Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence, curated by Kathryn Weir (Head of Cultural Development, Centre Pompidou), with associate curator Ilaria Conti and curatorial advisor Zhang Hanlu, presents artworks and programs by almost 60 artists and groups, exploring ecology, technology and the commons, and envisioning how we today may draw on intelligent technologies, as well as on ecological intelligence, to advance social values—rather than leaving capital to largely define the uses of these techniques and knowledge systems. The Cosmopolis platform was launched by the Centre Pompidou in 2016 to highlight research-based creative practices that are rooted in a particular context yet engage in international conversations, reflecting on cultural translation and the situatedness of knowledge. The first two-year cycle, centered on collaboration and collective practice, culminated in the exhibition Cosmopolis #1: Collective Intelligence. Cosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence is the second major exhibition associated with the platform. Website www.cosmopolischengdu.com.
» 19/08/2018: The Commercial is open by appointment only during August. Yasmin Smith's Drowned River Valley will continue during this period but only viewable by appointment during regular gallery hours. Please email the gallery to arrange a visit.
» 17/07/2018: Yasmin Smith is featured in The Journal of Australian Ceramics, July Issue, with coverage by Jan Guy.
» 07/07/2018: Yasmin Smith is featured in the current Art Collector magazine. Coverage by Rachel Tolosa Paz.
» 31/05/2018: Coverage of Yasmin Smith's work 'Drowned River Valley', 2018, is included in The Monthly review of the Sydney Biennale, '21st Biennale of Sydney', by writer and curator Julie Ewington. "Australian Yasmin Smith has set up a workshop transforming her clays, Parramatta River mangrove wood for glazes, and the salt of Sydney Harbour in a beautifully calibrated process that will endure throughout the exhibition; her drying room, on the island's upper level, is physically separate but conceptually integral." [excerpt, full article on TheMonthly.com.au, May edition of the magazine.] The Sydney Biennale continues until June 11.
» 16/03/2018: TimeOut Sydney magazine includes Yasmin Smith in 'Six must-see works at Biennale of Sydney'. The Biennale opens to the public today across seven venues, with Yasmin Smith's project at two sites on Cockatoo Island. The project is participatory for the the first month of the Biennale. "Smith will install a large-scale participatory work in what was once a timber-drying shed on Cockatoo Island. It’s an ambitious project involving the creation of an operating studio with a kiln and its own salt farm. Using materials gathered from the island and salt from the surrounding water, Smith will create a forest of ceramic tree branches." Coverage by Elissa Blake.
» 03/03/2018: Yasmin Smith will deliver an Artist Talk at the Superposition Studio, Cockatoo Island, as part of the 21st Biennale of Sydney PREVIEW, 3 - 4pm on 14/03/18. Smith will talk through her major site-specific ceramic project on Cockatoo Island, which she has worked on since being selected into the Biennale program, in March 2017, by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka. Yasmin Smith's ceramics practice uses research and archeological processes to explore the chemistry of glaze techniques to furnish material evidence of histories, ecology, geology and culture. Join the studio audience to gain insight into Smith's dynamic practice, her artwork build and outcomes, and the site-specific nature of her work on Cockatoo Island for the Biennale of Sydney. The preview talk is FREE to attend. The Biennale of Sydney opens offically 16/03/18 - 11/06/18.
» 01/03/2018: Artistic Director of the 21st Biennale of Sydney, Mami Kataoka, has highlighted Yasmin Smith's work to view within the Biennale program. ‘Artists like Yasmin Smith, whose site-specific ceramic work at Cockatoo Island uses the earth – clay as art – water, fire and wood to make that fire. It’s one of the ancient ways of making daily objects and this medium is so current,’ says Kataoka, 'Merging aspects of art, archaeology and science, Smith examines the processes and chemical composition of glazes made from material found on site to reveal the history, ecology, geology and culture of a place'. Visual ArtsHub coverage, by Gina Fairley.
» 15/02/2018: The upcoming Biennale of Sydney opens in exactly one month, with an anticipated program. Yasmin Smith has been selected by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka to develop a site specific project for Cockatoo Island. The ceramic project will investigate the presence and significance of salt in the Sydney Harbour and Parramatta River tidal exchange. ‘Smith’s work will explore the long history of abuse Parramatta River has suffered since colonisation – through industrialisation and urbanisation – which has changed the foreshore line and the makeup of the vegetation and river itself.’ – Broadsheet Sydney. The 21st Biennale of Sydney will be presented across seven venues over twelve weeks 16/04/18 – 11/06/18
» 14/12/2017: The Biennale of Sydney has released its full list of artists for the 21st Biennale of Sydney curated by Mami Kataoka opening in March 2018. Yasmin Smith has been busy developing her incredible site specific ceramics project for Cockatoo Island investigating the presence and significance of salt in the Sydney Harbour/Parramatta River tidal exchange waters.
» 18/09/2017: It is a great pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith's ceramics installation, Open Vase Central Leader Widow Maker, a forensics of site-specific wood ash glazes, shortlisted for the 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramics Award, has been acquired by Shepparton Art Museum. We look forward to seeing Open Vase Central Leader Widow Maker installed in the new SAM building, due to commence construction in 2018.
» 07/04/2017: Yasmin Smith in coverage of Biennale of Sydney's announcement of first 21 artists in Artist Director Mami Kataoka's 21st Biennale of Sydney in The Guardian.
» 06/04/2017: Today the Biennale of Sydney announced the names of the first 21 artists selected by Artistic Director Mami Kataoka for the 21st Biennale of Sydney. Congratulations to Yasmin Smith on her inclusion on this list. Smith is one of three Australian artists on the preliminary list (the list includes Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Ai Weiwei, Brook Andrew, N.S. Harsha, Koji Ryui and George Tjungurrayi). Exhibition dates 16/03/18 - 11/06/18.
» 03/02/2017: Congratulations to Yasmin Smith for being one of five artists shortlisted for the 2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award. The $ 50,000 prize will be announced at Shepparton Art Museum on June 17. Finalists are Glenn Barkley, Karen Black, Laith McGregor, Jenny Orchard and Yasmin Smith. The exhibition will comprise all new work commissioned for the award exhibition.
» 23/01/2017: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting works from her 2015 Ntaria Fence series in the group exhibition, World Material, guest curated by Chloé Wolifson at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney. The exhibition opens Saturday 28/01/17, 4-6pm and continues until 25/02/17. Artists include Connie Anthes, Rebecca Gallo, Eloise Kirk, Michelle Nikou, Lisa Sammut, Lotte Schwerdtfeger, Yasmin Smith and Louise Weaver.
» 05/08/2016: Yasmin Smith is presenting a site-specific process based work, Contours of Our Heart, for Sculpture at Barangaroo. Engaging with the recent massive excavation and relandscaping of the Barangaroo site, Smith has sourced local sandstone, a prominent feature of Barangaroo Reserve but also synonymous to Sydney. Sandstone also denotes the colonial city as it was a popular building material from the late 1790s to the 1890s. Typical of her development of glazes related to specific sites and histories, Smith has ground Barangaroo sandstone to form a site-specific clay and glaze and is inviting participation in daily workshops to create individual clay pieces. A kiln, the centrepiece of a makeshift campsite, is heated daily to fire the clay pieces and to allow for glazing. Yasmin Smith in Sculpture at Barangaroo, Nawi Lawn, Barangaroo Reserve, 06/08/16 - 21/08/16.
» 20/07/2015: Yasmin Smith is presenting a talk about her large ceramics installation, Ntaria Fence, at The Commercial on Saturday 25/07/15, 4pm.
» 20/06/2014: The Commercial is excited in anticipation of its first presentation at Melbourne Art Fair in the Royal Exhibition Building from 13/08/14 - 17/08/14. Presented by the Melbourne Art Foundation, a not for profit organisation, Melbourne Art Fair is one of Australasia’s longest running contemporary art events. For 25 years the Fair has stimulated critical and commercial attention for galleries and their artists directly contributing to the livelihood of living artists. The Commercial will present a group exhibition in the MAF Galleries sector. Collector's passes and tickets to the opening night Vernissage on Wednesday 13 August, 6-10pm are available on the Melbourne Art Fair website.
» 17/02/2014: Yasmin Smith recently spent a month at Hermannsburg in Central Australia assisting the community of potters on the Old Church Project. The project's aim was to create a ceramic replica of the old Lutheran mission church, an installation with soundscape, exploring the material culture of the mission period. A short documentary about the Hermannsburg Old Church Project is being broadcast at 10am AEST on Monday 17/02/14 on ABC Radio National's Books and Arts Daily program. A live streaming of the program is available on the Radio National website.
» 13/10/2013: Agatha Gothe-Snape and Yasmin Smith are two of five alumni of Sydney College of the Arts shortlisted for the 2013 Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists' Travel Scholarship Prize. The scholarship was established to provide financial assistance to a recent SCA graduate to further his/her visual arts practice and professional development in an international environment. The scholarship offers $28,000 and is awarded on the basis of an application and visual assessment by a panel of judges. Major works by the artists will be on exhibition at SCA 17/10/13 - 25/10/13. Announcement of the prize and opening event takes place on Wednesday 16/10/13, 5.30-8pm.
» 12/09/2013: Yasmin Smith has been selected to exhibit in Installation Contemporary, the curated section for installation and oversized work at the inaugural Sydney Contemporary art fair. Smith is producing a major new group of large ceramic works, an extension of her Apprentice Welder series seen in her solo exhibition at The Commercial earlier this year. Installation Contemporary is curated by Aaron Seeto, Director of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney. Sydney Contemporary is being held at Carriageworks between Thursday 19 and Sunday 22 September. Yasmin Smith, Installation Contemporary, IC11.
» 12/06/2013: It is a pleasure to announce that Yasmin Smith's work Apprentice Welder has been acquired by Artbank.
» 09/11/2012: Yasmin Smith is exhibiting in the group exhibition, Reality Considerations (for the sake of), at 55 Sydenham Rd. The exhibition is curated by Eleonor Ivory Weber and includes work by Filipa César, Bea Fremderman, Georgia Kaw, Asta, Meldal Lynge and Yasmin Smith. It opens Friday 09/11/12, 6pm until late. The exhibition includes a performance program and publication: Performances by Brian Fuata (17.11.12) and Matte Rochford (1.12.12). The publication has been designed by Richard Houguez and includes written contributions from : Catherine Borra, Tom Clark, Amelia Groom, João Laia, JD Reforma, David Smail and Eleonor Ivory Weber. Further ... Amelia Groom and Eleonor Ivory Weber will have "a counter-productive conversation on fashion (24.11.12), and each Saturday at 3pm (or by request) they will screen the documentary 'Hidden Depths' (1989) directed by the late Nina Burr for Thames TV and featuring psychologist David Smail." exhibition dates: 09/11/12 - 02/12/12 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville
» 01/09/2012: Yasmin Smith and fellow artist, Alex Pye, have initiated an open-format artist residency called Dark tea time of the soul in Cumnock in rural New South Wales, near the regional centre of Orange. Inquire through Dark tea time of the soul’s Facebook page for information about the residency.