KEN SMITH
Ken Smith is currently Lecturer in Drawing at MADA, Monash University's Faculty of Art Design and Architecture. He has recently been shortlisted for the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award and in 2012 was awarded the 2012 Rick Amor Drawing Prize for his work In The Light Of History I. Ken has also been a finalist in the Heysen Prize, and a multiple finalist in both the Jacaranda Acquisitive Art Award and the Tattersall's Club Art Prize. His work is also represented in the collections of Artbank, Leeuwin Estate, Michell Endowment, Arbitration Commission and many other corporate and private collections.
Through an intense scrutiny of the world around him, Ken Smith records with stunning precision his own formal arrangement of 'found' objects set against the endless expanse of the sea and sky. These cool light suffused paintings allow for contemplation through their serenity and stillness. Ken Smith's still life groups have a power and assertiveness that has been achieved through a masterly control of the medium and remarkable finesse of subtle colour transitions.
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