Miranda Smith

Graduated from RMIT University with a bachelor’s degree of Fine Art in 2019. Light, colour and perceptual fallacies- Miranda Smith’s practice is driven by a fascination with non-conscious experience.

Smith creates art that uses our perceptual fallacies to generate heightened experience through site-specific installation, photography, sculpture, and painting. Her work is created using optically complex materials, including light, dichromatic glass, mirror, and magnifying PVC.

Drawing on affect theory, philosophy, and biology as stimulus for conceptual development and production- Smith aims to involve the viewer in questioning their own experience of her work.

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Miranda Smith

Graduated from RMIT University with a bachelor’s degree of Fine Art in 2019. Light, colour and perceptual fallacies- Miranda Smith’s practice is driven by a fascination with non-conscious experience.

Smith creates art that uses our perceptual fallacies to generate heightened experience through site-specific installation, photography, sculpture, and painting. Her work is created using optically complex materials, including light, dichromatic glass, mirror, and magnifying PVC.

Drawing on affect theory, philosophy, and biology as stimulus for conceptual development and production- Smith aims to involve the viewer in questioning their own experience of her work.

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Selected Works

Digital PRINT

‘Situational Ephemerality’

Miranda Smith

Biography

Miranda Smith

  • 2021- Currently studying in RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne
    Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours)
  • 2017-2019 RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne
    Bachelor of Fine Art
  • 2009 – 2016 Island School, English Schools Foundation (ESF)Hong Kong

 

I paint with light. My work is not only a celebration of colour and light. But an exploration of our inherent relationship with it. Light has a profound effect on us, it can alter our mental and physical states and it is our visual guide through the world.

But the way that we experience light is full of these fascinating little fallacies. I fully embrace and use these fallacies in my work to create a more heightened viewing experience.

The longer that you spend with my works, the more that they reveal themselves to you. The work itself does not change- but to you it has. I like to encourage a more insightful understanding of how you are a living thing intertwined with everything else in the universe.

You are connected to everything you see, but you still cannot entirely trust everything that you experience to be a true reality.The juxtaposition between the human eye and the camera is vital to my work. The human eye can pick up on things that the camera cannot and vice versa.

I often push cameras to their sensor’s limits. This results in some exciting effects. These dark saturated fields of colour that seem to appear out of nowhere and have quite uncertain origins. My prints capture this beautiful moment in time and depending on the colours and intensities it can have quite varying effects on their viewers.

As an artist I want to continue to push the boundaries in terms of human perspectives on light and perception. And to continue to embrace exciting new technologies and opportunities to expand our relationship to art.

Exhibition highlights

Solo – Exhibitions

2020  Lucent Nebulous, GALLERY JEEUM, Hong Kong

 

Group – Exhibitions

2020  Gallery Jeeum December Group Exhibition, GALLERY JEEUM, Hong Kong

2020  The Bulleke-bek Brunswick International Screen Marathon, Gallery Gallery Inc, Naarm/Melbourne

 

2020  The Offline Affordable Art Fair Exhibition, GALLERY JEEUM, Hong Kong

2020  MISSING THE REAL WORLD, FORT HEART, Naarm/Melbourne (Virtual Exhibition) 

2020  Co-Existence 5, GALLERY JEEUM, Hong Kong

2019  RMIT Fine Art Graduate Exhibition, RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia 

 

2018  JCR Exhibition, Queen’s College, Naarm/Melbourne University, Australia

Curatorial Projects

2018  JCR Exhibition, Queen’s College, Naarm/Melbourne University, Australia 

Texts 

2018  ‘How Feminist Art Changed Notions of Feminism, Gender, and Identity’, Aedificamus, 2018

Art Fairs

2020  The Global Affordable Art Fair, GALLERY JEEUM, Hong Kong