“A natural kind”
Lynette Smith
14 Nov → 29 Nov 2003
The natural kind of the title is a spiny thing. Simple parts are assembled into an object which is whole and indivisible. Orderly accumulation appears as a pattern. These objects have come from thinking about variation and type but also purpose, definitions and interpretation. We collapse our knowledge of the ends of things into our explanation of their beginnings.
Lynette Smith completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at RMIT University in 1995 and went on to do postgraduate study in linguistics and philosophy in the mid-2000s at the University of Melbourne. She has exhibited in public, private and artist-run galleries since 2000 and in 2004-2005 she was on the board of West Space. Her work is in private collections in Australia, the United States and in Europe. She divides her time between Melbourne and Berlin.