Kevina-Jo Smith | Climbing and Falling Through the Air
Climbing and Falling Through the Air
Upcycled mixed media and Victorian Ash frame
70 x 90 cm
$1,800
Kevina-Jo Smith
Bio
Kevina-Jo Smith resides in the Blue Mountains, a place which sustains and inspires her. After many years of travelling, she chose to anchor herself here. Smith collects and reuses consumer by-product materials from which her artwork emerges. Each piece is intricate, and time consuming to create: a heavy practical span of hand-knitting, knotting and weaving. Her process is a tribute to the natural world and a ritual against destruction. Kevina’s current investigation also involves responding to her recent personal changes and challenges as well as the collective environmental changes faced in the mountains and the renewal that has taken place both personally and collectively. Whether it be through a large wall hanging, a framed woven piece, or a constructed item of furniture, she is weaving the stories of her space and memory through the work whilst utilising found and recycled materials as a statement of her ideas of how we can move forward as a community, caring for our land. “These works are both typical of my previous work, but also entirely new and ordered. They are full of symbolism, meant only for myself and those who are meant to see into it. My artwork is a reflective way of meditating and processing, passing on any insight to others who might need it too”. Aesthetically, their work is complimentary in the space with a similar pastel palette, utilising blues as a tool to link in with themes of water/rain/veils/ memories. They both weave ideas visually through layers of colour. Combined their work has a strong story to tell, creating an immersive space that the viewer can weave themselves through.
