SARAH SMUTS-KENNEDY
Smuts-Kennedy’s practice is focused on a research-based investigation into fields of energy as they engage with conceptual thinking, both within art-based languages and other intuition driven modes of enquiry. Non-linear principles of biodynamic and Goethean agricultural theory—which she tests at her biodynamic, permaculture teaching garden 45 minutes north of Auckland—function as a central axis for her research.
Born in Lower Hutt in 1966 Smuts-Kennedy graduated with an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2012.
‘I am an artist. My work/life centres around practising ways to flow alongside and within syntropic energy systems—the systems that nurture and support life. This can look like a drawing/painting practice, a gardening practice or a social sculpture. Having fun, feeling peaceful and eating from a radiant garden are great ways to figure out if I am on track.’
Text courtesy Sophie Gannon Gallery
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