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Caitlyn Smith is a multi-disciplinary artist utilising and exploring how to bring materiality to the ephemeral. That is the recollection of the fragments from her memory; her family's collective remembering and the cultural intersection of her Australian-Malaysian heritage. Based in Naarm, she utilizes photography and painting based processes to deconstruct and reconstruct as an act of reflective catharsis. 

Caitlyn finds comfort in the mundanity of familiar settings, with an appreciation for food and unique cultural or familial traditions. Shaping her identity and its expression, family and culture bleeds into her work through appreciation and conflict. The values, expectations and standards lingering softly in its creation. An expression of love and wholeheartedness, her sensitive works display intimate connections of finding oneself through the weight of life and the emotional resonance of family.

Caitlyn Smith Headshot taken on an old Photobooth strip

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Lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne), VIC

Selected Exhibitions

2024 - Revel & Reveal (Graduate Exhibition), RMIT Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts
2024 - Exhibition for Ants 2.0 (group show), Unassigned Gallery, VIC
2023 - Hillvale Photo Trophy (group show), Hillvale Gallery, VIC

Awards

2024 - Excellence Award, RMIT Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, VIC

Volunteer Work

2024 - Workshop Facilitator, Toning at Home - Cyanotype Masterclass, Museum of Australian Photography, Jess Schwientek and Ruby Armstrong-Porter
2024 - Seventh Gallery, Invigilator

Design/Marketing Experience

2024 - Revel & Reveal Graduate Exhibition Poster, Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts - in collaboration with Ruby Armstrong-Porter, Maya Kirk and Danni Pleming
2024 - Auction Poster, Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts - in collaboration with Danni Pleming and Katarina Vukmirovic
2024 - Marketing and Communications Committee member - Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts

Collections

Various private collections


Stockists

2025 - Incubator, Fitzroy, VIC

Education

2024 - Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University (VE)
2023 - Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University (VE)