BEC SMITH

Bec Smith is a Melbourne-based artist who has practiced art and design in both Australia and overseas for over 25 years. In pursuit of her creative practice Bec studied at The Art Academy in London, the Art Room in Melbourne, RMIT and Swinburne National School of Design where she holds a Bachelor degree in Graphic Design. She has always stayed particularly interested in abstract, non- objective, and colourfield paintings – a natural extension of a designer’s grounding in the early visual language of the Bauhaus, Modernists, Op, and Abstract Expressionists movements as well a deep interest in social and psychoanalytic practices. Her works are realisations of actual and idealised situations about the dynamics within structures and systems translated into static. moments in time – luminal spaces depicting stories of fiction and non-fiction, duality and multiple truths. Bec has participated in the Belle Arti Prize, Melbourne Design Festival, Sydney Contemporary, and her work is held in private collections. 

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“Somewhere in the recent past I became fascinated with the notion of ‘parallel lives’. I learned that a ‘provisional life’ - as it is known in the world of psychology, called ‘Puer Aeturnus’ in the Jungian lexicon - is a sort of fictional life lived in the imagination alongside the actual. I’d been thinking about this from the point of view of the domestic, the everyday, and the ordinary."

Collaborations 2021 Leif Products Australia, limited edition print & custom packaging, Mother’s Day campaign 2020 Creo Gallery, Melbourne, Custom studio mural 2020 Arc Pilates, Melbourne, Studio wall sculpture 2020 Pop and Scott, Melbourne, Make It Rain Fundraiser commission 2018 ‘Pattern For Yemen’ Silk scarf design, Fundraising initiative in partnership with Friends of Mine Studio X The Souvenir Society 2018 Neometro, Custom artwork for virtual showroom 2018 Neometro, Custom artworks for Jewel Station Project, Brunswick 2018 Sculptures for Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with Pop and Scott, Melbourne 2013 Poster for Man About the House show, Melbourne Comedy Festival

2021: The Arc of Happiness (group) presentation at Sydney Contemporary – Saint Cloche 2021: Terrain (mini solo) – Saint Cloche 2020: Casette (solo) – Saint Cloche, Sydney 2019: Sub (solo) – Saint Cloche, Sydney 2018: Cameos (solo) – Saint Cloche 2017: Jet Set (group) – Saint Cloche Collaborations 2021 Leif Products Australia, limited edition print & custom packaging, Mother’s Day campaign 2020 Creo Gallery, Melbourne, Custom studio mural 2020 Arc Pilates, Melbourne, Studio wall sculpture 2020 Pop and Scott, Melbourne, Make It Rain Fundraiser commission 2018 ‘Pattern For Yemen’ Silk scarf design, Fundraising initiative in partnership with Friends of Mine Studio X The Souvenir Society 2018 Neometro, Custom artwork for virtual showroom 2018 Neometro, Custom artworks for Jewel Station Project, Brunswick 2018 Sculptures for Melbourne Design Week, in partnership with Pop and Scott, Melbourne 2013 Poster for Man About the House show, Melbourne Comedy Festival