AMBER SMITH
AMBER SMITH
Curator & Visual Arts Programmer
Image: Sarah Walker
Amber Smith is an artist, curator, producer and writer working within the sphere of objects, thing theory and collection practices. Amber is a PhD candidate at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative Arts. They hold a Bachelor of Design Arts (Visual Arts) from the Australian Academy of Design and a First-Class Honours Degree in Creative Arts at Deakin University. Amber is the Curator at Platform Arts and an academic at LaSalle College International Melbourne (LCIM) and Deakin University.
Amber has worked on projects with the Victorian College of the Arts, Public Art Commission x Geelong Advertiser, Midsumma Festival, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Deakin University, Somebody’s Daughter Theatre Company, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Headspace, Art Gusto, Geelong After Dark, Geelong City Council, Geelong Arts Centre and Geelong Gallery, along with being a founding member of The Good Excuse Guild and Studio 112. They’ve been a finalist in the Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Prize (2019) and have exhibited across Melbourne at Montsalvat, Craft Victoria, Deakin Art Gallery, Allpress Studios, Fawn Gallery, Noir Darkroom, Lovers and BSG, and internationally in Bogotá, Colombia. Amber created the female-identifying and non-binary led and devised symposia/exhibition Energetical and the Brackets Art Prize in regional Victoria. In 2020, Amber Smith released their first self-published work ‘Social Envelopes and Umbilical Blemishes’, a book that accompanies their latest work in development ‘Constellations’.