NEWS
FINALIST - WYNDHAM ART PRIZE, Wyndham Art Gallery, 177 Watton Street Werribee, Victoria
28 March 2018 - 11 June 2018
I was privileged to be one of the thirty-one artists invited to contribute to this unique folio of relief prints titled - Eventide,
coordinated by Rona Green.
On exhibition at the New England Regional Art Museum 17 Feb - 29 April 2018.
Handmark Gallery - 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart, TASMANIA
handmark.com.au
Exhibition dates 2 - 19 February 2018
Several new prints of mine to be shown in this exhibtion in Melbourne over the Summer!
Leave no trace I & II 2016
AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP GALLERY - Current Exhibtion
SPRING FEAST
A selection of original limited edition fine art prints celebrating the essence of spring.
Works by Butcher Cherel, Kyoko Imazu, Deborah Klein, Tim Maguire, Tommy May, Melissa Smith and Louise Weaver.
210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065
T: (03) 9419 5466 E: auspw@bigpond.com
www.australianprintworkshop.com
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10am-5pm
FINALIST - 2017 BANYULE AWARD FOR WORKS ON PAPER, Hatch Contemporary Arts Space, 14 Ivanhoe Parade, Ivanhoe, Victoria
5 October 2017 - 2 December 2017
PAPER CONTEMPORARY I SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY
7 - 10 September 2017
Carriageworks, Sydney
FINALIST - WHYALLA ART PRIZE, Middleback Arts Centre, 141a Nicolson Avenue, Whyalla, South Australia
30 September 2017 - 2 December 2017
FINALIST - 2017 GIPPSLAND PRINT AWARD, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria
2 September 2017 - 19 November 2017
FINALIST - BAY OF FIRES ART PRIZE, Tidal Waters Resort, St Helens, Tasmania
11 June 2017 - 1 July 2017
22 April - 3 June, 2017
Artist Reception 2 - 4pm 13 May, 2017
FINALIST - WYNDHAM ART PRIZE, Wyndham Art Gallery, Werribee, Victoria
5 April 2017 - 11 June 2017
FINALIST - BURNIE PRINT PRIZE, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
18 March 2017 - 7 May 2017
PROOF: THE BEST OF CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING: 25TH NOVEMBER – 23RD DECEMBER
November 25, 2016 — December 23, 2016
AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP
23 - 29 October, 2016
A wonderful week at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne working with Master printer, Martin King on a Collaborative print project.
SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
October 14, 2016 — November 7, 2016
Martin King (VIC), Milan Milojevic (TAS), Melissa Smith (TAS) & Dianne Fogwell (ACT)
Springtide 2016 collagraph 51.5 x 152cm
WINNER - MANCELL FINANCIAL GROUP TasArt Exhibition 2016 - City of Burnie Award for Any Medium/Subject on Paper - Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, Tasmania
24 September 2016 - 22 October 2016
FINALIST - 2016 SCOPE GALLERIES ART AWARD - Art Concerning Environment, Scope Galleries, Warrnambool, Victoria
11 June 2016 - 31 July 2016
LOLA GREENO AND FRIENDS - Handmark Gallery, Hobart
27 May - 13 June 2016
Special guest to open the exhibition is Dr Ron Radford AM
FINALIST - SWAN HILL PRINT & DRAWING ACQUISITIVE AWARDS, Swan Hill Regional Gallery, Swan Hill, Victoria
14 May 2016 - 10 July 2016
FINALIST - RICK AMOR PRINT PRIZE 2015, Barn Gallery - Montsalvat, Victoria
3 December 2015 - 24 January 2016
Parallel Prints 2015 NZ/Australia features Mark Graver from Wharepuke, NZ and eleven invited artists from Australia.
The project takes the same form as the original Parallel Prints 2013 NZ/UK with simultaneous exhibitions and a set of 24 archival portfolios. The exhibitions will take place at Art at Wharepuke in Kerikeri, New Zealand from the 3rd – 31st October and at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia from 3rd October to 22nd November 2015.
FINALIST - 2015 MILDURA BMW AUSTRALIAN PRINT TRIENNIAL PRIZE, The Art Vault, Mildura, Victoria
28 October 2015 - 16 November 2015
FINALIST - 2015 GIPPSLAND PRINT AWARD, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Victoria
26 September 2015 - 22 November 2015
FINALIST - HUTCHINS ART PRIZE - Works on Paper, Long Gallery, Salamanaca Place, Hobart, Tasmania
8 September 2015 - 20 September 2015
FINALIST - BAY OF FIRES ART PRIZE, Tidal Waters Resort, St Helens, Tasmania
Highly Commended
6 June 2015 - 27 June 2015
FINALIST - BURNIE PRINT PRIZE, Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Tasmania
14 March 2015 - 10 May 2015
FINALIST - GLOVER PRIZE, Falls Park Pavilion, Evandale, Tasmania
6 March 2015 - 10 March 2015
FINALIST - TIDAL: CITY OF DEVONPORT ART AWARD, Devonport Regional Gallery, Tasmania
12 December 2014 - 1 February 2015
Evolving conversations 
University of Technology, Sydney
Main Entrance Foyer, 3 Sept 2014 - 20 Nov 2014
Ultimo festival, Sydney 3 -12 Sept 2014
To address climate means we have to act now in order to achieve a result decades into the future... To embrace a cultural shift as the necessary part of the solution requires the creative community to help vision the new and for art practice to inhabit reality on a different plane.
FINALIST - WOOLLAHRA SMALL SCULPTURE PRIZE, Woollahra Council Chambers, Double Bay, Sydney
18 October - 2 November 2014
FINALIST - 2014 SILKCUT AWARD, Glen Eira City Council Gallery
5 September - 21 September 2014
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PORT JACKSON PRESS GALLERY JUNE with Melissa Smith Melissa Smith primarily works with print, utilizing traditional and new technologies. Her work references aspects of the landscape and in particular the shifts in the landscape that have occurred as a consequence of climatic changes, questioning its future balance. |
FINALIST - BAY OF FIRES ART AWARD 2014, St Helens, Tasmania 7 June
FINALIST - SCOPE GALLERIES ART AWARD 2014 - ART CONCERNING ENVIRONMENT, Warnambool, Victoria 8 June - 20 July
Now Showing: LAND: GROUP EXHIBITION, Celia Lendis Galleries, UK
Affordable Art Weekend
1 -2 March 2014
Celia Lendis Galleries - The Inventory
Morton-in-Marsh, Cotswolds, UK
Works on Paper Art Fair - London
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Prints 25, Print Council of Australia
Whitehorse Artspace
23 January - 1 March 2014
Whitehorse City Council, Box Hill, Victoria
Each year the Print Council of Australia commissions a group of emerging and established Australian printmakers to create an edition of prints for the Annual Print Commission Program.
Like many public galleries, museums and schools, Whitehorse City Council has been collecting prints from this program for more than 20 years. Melissa Smith's work is part of this collection.
Garland 2011 collagraph 56cm x 114cm
Tasmanian Landscape
Academy Gallery, Tasmanian College of the Arts, Launceston, Tasmania
Exhibition dates: 7 February to 14 March, 2014
Exhibition curator: Dr Malcom Bywaters
Artists: Margo Baird, Felix Blackman, Lorene Bourffard, Matthew Carey, Scott Cunningham, Jennifer Dickens, Lola Greeno, Patrick Grieve, Susan Henderson, Michael Kay, David Keeling, Philip Kuruvita, Kim Lehman, Penny Mason, Ben Miller, Tamas Oszvald, Troy Ruffels, Melissa Smith, Paul Snell, Danielle Thompson, Megan Walch, Helene Weeding, Philip Wolfhagen
Tasmanian artists provide insights into the unique set of historical and social forces that have shaped the island’s present identity and continue to influence its future. Tasmanian Landscape will exhibit a diversity of creative exploration specific to the unique environment of Australia's only island state. Within our contemporary sensibility the natural ethos encompasses many and numerous variables. Tasmanian Landscape will give creative expression to these differences by sculpture, painting, photography and installation.
Tasmanian Landscape is exhibited in partnership with The Travelling/Writing Tasmania Symposium 2014 to be hosted in collaboration by Colonialism and its Aftermath (CAIA) research centre (UTAS), and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL).
CLICK HERE to read about Melissa Smith's DISSOLVE series in the current issue of the
AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC MAGAZINE