Gemma Smith
Found Ground – LIMITED EDITION

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Gemma Smith signed limited edition in a Boulder-style multi-coloured acrylic slip case.

Produced to the highest standards, Found Ground is an an extra special collectors item in this limited edition format.

A luscious 176 page hardcover volume featuring work from throughout Smith’s career. Packaged in a Boulder-style multi-coloured acrylic slip case and signed by the artist, each limited edition slip case is a unique and original piece with its own colour spectrum. 

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.

Hardcover in acrylic slip case

176 Pages
216 × 264 mm
Edition: 20
Editor: Mark Gowing
Design: Mark Gowing
Essays: Julie Ewington, Maika Pollack
Typeset in Formist Boulder Mono
ISBN: 978–0–9875268–8–5
2018 FE013X