Darcy Smith is an emerging artist from Melbourne, Australia predominantly working in sculptural installation. In recent projects, Smith has used live events to explore how processuality and choreography through everyday movement can exacerbate problems that then lead to reflect the presupposed constructed social norms that situate females in the social sphere. Glass is an integral material to Smith’s practice as both the physical and metaphorical relationships that arise from glass both manipulate and sway the trajectory of investigation after moving forward from the ideas of change through the effects of trauma.
RESIDENCIES/TRAINING
2017 Naked State Art Residency, Bare Oaks, Toronto OT, Canada
2015 Neon, Plasma and Beyond with Wayne Strattman
Session 5 Summer course
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA U.S.A
Awards/Scholarships
2016 November Blindside Debut XIII Award
Blindside Gallery through Monash University
2015 November Monash BFA Art Prize, Monash University
2015 July to August Pilchuck Glass School Partner School Scholarship
Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood WA U.S.A
2015 February Student Presenter at States of Illumination Ausglass Conference
Adelaide SA Australia
Education
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash University
2013 - 2015 Bachelor of Fine Art, Monash University
2009 - 2010 Certificate II in Dance
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 viscosity, RUNT/LINK Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield VIC
2014 diaphanous, RUNT/LINK Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield VIC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 12:21 in collaboration with Maddy Anderson Gaffa Gallery, Sydney NSW
2017 Memory Palace, curated by Jake Treacy at Dirty Dozen, Melbourne VIC
2017 Debut XIII, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne VIC
2016 MADA NOW 16, Monash University, Caulfield VIC
2016 Windows XII, Dirty Dozen, Melbourne VIC
2016 Halfway Honoured, Batch Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield VIC
2016 National Emerging Art Glass Prize, Wagga Wagga NSW
2016 Fresh! Craft Victoria, Melbourne VIC
2015 MADA NOW 15, Monash University Caulfield VIC