Gemma Smith
Found Ground

Found Ground is the first comprehensive survey of Australian artist Gemma Smith’s practice, incorporating a rigorous and playful approach painting and sculpture. Smith’s free-wheeling painting pushes and pulls at the sheer joy of colour, while her search for understanding goes against the grain of painterly convention. Her crystalline monument-like ‘boulder’ sculptures further express her dynamic colour control. Multi-faceted and multi-coloured, they forge mutating relationships with Smith’s paintings that create new and unexpected correlations.

Found Ground is an immersive experience, providing detailed insight into Smith’s works. A luscious 176 page hardcover volume featuring work from throughout Smith’s career. Informed by Smith’s explorations into colour theory and abstraction, the book’s design features a unique folding-corner hardcover, coloured page edges and special multicoloured pages with folded corners. The volume is also typeset with a custom typeface designed as a response to Smith’s experiments with form and geometry.

This title is also available as an official Limited Edition volume packaged in a Boulder-style multi-coloured acrylic slip case, signed and numbered by the artist.

Hardcover
176 Pages
216 × 264 mm
Editor: Mark Gowing
Design: Mark Gowing Studio
Essays: Julie Ewington, Maika Pollack
Typeset in The Letters Boulder Mono
ISBN: 978–0–9875268–8–5
2018 FE013

See also: Found Ground Limited Edition