We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art stands and recognise the creative contribution First Australians make to the art and culture of this country.
Gemma Smith / Australia b.1978 / Boulder prototype #2 2008 / Laser-cut Perspex, ed. of 22 unique works / 53 x 39 x 53cm (irreg., approx.) / Gift of Dr Morris Low through the Queensland Art Gallery Foundation 2011. Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Gemma Smith
Gemma SmithBoulder prototype #2 2008
Not Currently on Display
‘Boulders’, Gemma Smith’s 2008 series of diamond-like sculptures, refer on one level to geometric and heavy organic forms. On another level, in their translucence, they refer to the industrial interests of minimalism. It is an intentional opposition: the ‘Boulders’ are both minimal and complex.
In 2005 Smith studied colour theory at Parsons School of Design in New York, and researched the subject using Yale University’s Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color, one of the world’s largest holdings of books on colour theory. Through her knowledge of colour and the abstraction of modernism, Smith engages audiences with the pleasure of making art through improvisation, play and invention.