14 - 30 AUGUST

BEN SMITH

LUMINA

Ben Smith has been a finalist in more than 50 established art prizes across Australia, including the Doug Moran Portrait Prize (2009, 2010), the Sulman Prize (2010, 2011) and the Archibald Prize (2024). Ben has exhibited across Australia, South Korea, Denmark, Los Angeles, San Francisco & New York.

Opens: Thursday, 16 August from 6 - 8pm
On show: 16 - 30 August

In the deep hours of night, the gum trees lift their branches to the sky as if in quiet petition. Above them, the heavens turn. In Lumina, Ben Smith casts his gaze skyward, threading celestial awe through the tangled bush of Australian mythos.

Anchored in the tradition of the Romantic sublime, these new works trace the legacy of artists as disparate as Gustave Doré, Sidney Nolan, and Arthur Streeton. Smith orchestrates a vision that feels both personal and universal: an invitation to stand at the edge of the known world and peer outward, or inward, into the infinite.

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