Kate Smith: Shampoo Studio

An exhibition of new paintings by Wagga Wagga based artist Kate Smith, presented as part of nginha: you are here, a season of programming celebrating artists from our region. Smith creates paintings that often appear unfinished. They celebrate spontaneity, quickness, and the generally unseen moments that contribute to the construction of paintings such as doodles and underpainting. In doing so they draw attention to the mechanics of painting and create open pictorial spaces where the heartfelt and the self-ironising can co-exist.

Kate Smith has exhibited extensively across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand including in significant surveys of contemporary art at National Gallery Victoria, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Heide Museum of Modern Art. In 2022, Smith was featured in the painting survey Zombie Eaters at MAMA.