NICHOLAS SMITH
Feint understanding
23 Nov 2016—10 Dec 2016

Objects of personal worth are copied and displayed: a fake renaissance plinth with evidence of parasitic infestation, two basalt stones replicating those used to mark the edge of a squatter’s run on Wadawurrung land; the same squatter whose stolen wealth built my family home, and a series of ceramic vessels that mimic the works of white Australian painter Adrian Feint.
Nicholas Smith is a Melbourne-based artist. He graduated with an Honours degree in Fine Art from Monash University in 2013. Recent exhibitions include: searching for something, Mildura Palimpsest Biennale #10 and A Platonic Relationship, MADA. Early this year he was a finalist in the Substation Contemporary Art Prize.
Image: Nicholas Smith, Mooramong, Western District, 2016