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Amelia Smith
39 Images of Table Mountain (1665-1970), 2006
Lightjet print
767 x 1067 mm
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
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Graduated with an Honours Degree in Photography from Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT in 2007, Amelia Smith works with digitally overlaid images printed on photographic paper. Her work has an ethereal quality which intrigues and captivates the viewer, and invites one to explore the extensive detail that defines her artistic vision. Informed by museum specimens, library cataloguing, historical images and paintings, her work delves into the shifting grounds and boundaries of knowledge and systems of knowledge, hinting at possibilities of multiple truths and dissolving certainties. Smith's subject matter dates from the 11th to the 21st centuries, evoking various eras of ignorance and knowledge - the Dark Ages, the Enlightenment, exploration, colonialism and the Victorian practice of obsessive scientific documentation and cataloguing of natural history. Smith's series of digital prints, 39 Images of Table Mountain (1665-1970) was part of the 2007 Bell-Roberts group exhibition Portrait or Landscape. In August 2008 Amelia Smith will have her first solo exhibition with Bell-Roberts. She currently lives and works in Durban.
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