Aichi Triennale

Yasmin Smith works with ceramics and glaze technologies, producing large-scale sculptural installations that investigate particular sites via extensive field research, community collaboration and studio development. Her practice brings scientific and artistic concerns together to allow ecological forms of intelligence to be expressed through aesthetic outcomes in ceramic glazes. Smith works with organic and inorganic materials, such as plants, ash, rock, coal, salt, and wild clay in her expanded material investigations that involve a conceptual interrogation of labor, extractivism, colonization and political ecology. Smith has undertaken extended international residencies for the creation of new works for international exhibitions. Her work has been extensively acquired by major public institutions in Australia. Smith’s 2022 Work Forest was the realization of a four-year investigation into coal fly ash glazes sourced from eleven coal-fired power stations across Australia, creating a deep geological timeline.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Lagos Biennial 2024: REFUGE, Tafawa Balewa Square (Nigeria)

2021–22

10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane, Australia)

2020–21

Rethinking Nature, Madre-Donnaregina Contemporary Art Museum (Naples, Italy)

2019

Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human, Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)

2018

21st Biennale of Sydney: Superposition: Equilibrium and Engagement (Australia)