Bec Smith

Bec Smith

"The activity of colour mixing is something both alchemical as well as physiological – the process of working towards, assessing, and the altering of shifting colours yields a kind of memory sense for me. I’ve been thinking about particular stories in time and place, and these works stimulate my moments of high adventure, sometimes precarious, dangerous situations, or vulnerable states that have marked in my body the same sensations from those times. To me the colour spectrum in these works provide a feeling tone of light and shade – the hallmarks of adventure."

About the Artist

Bec Smith is a Melbourne-based artist who has practiced art and design in both Australia and overseas for over 20 years. In pursuit of her creative practice Smith has attended RMIT, The Art Academy, London, and Swinburne National School of Design. Smith has also been selected for the Belle Arti Prize and exhibited at the Melbourne Design Festival on multiple occasions. She has always stayed particularly interested in abstract, non-objective, and colourfield paintings from the early part of the last century – a natural extension of a designer’s grounding in the early design language of the Bauhaus. Bec's art explores dynamics within structures and systems, translating them into static moments in time – luminal spaces depicting stories of fiction and nonfiction, duality, and multiple truths.