Belinda Smith

SITE LAB Artwork

Belinda Smith ‘Learning to Float’ 2023 

The catastrophic events of 2022 have made us all rethink and reimagine our connection to land, water and home. Northern Rivers communities bloomed in their resilience and kindness, forging a path forward that is focused on healing and recovery. Belinda’s work utilises flowers as symbols of growth, joy and sorrow. ‘

Learning to Float’ 2023 is a daisy chain  of flower pontoons presented as an intervention of the Wilson River, Lismore. This artwork superimposes a vision of joy and healing on the landscape creating happier memories of our riverine landscapes

About the artist – 

Belinda Smith lives and works in Murwillumbah NSW, on Bundjalung Country. Her diverse practice includes public art, ceramics, textiles, wood, and paper.  Belinda has a diploma of Interior Design from RMIT (1998) and a Bachelor of Design from Queensland College of Art (2004).

Belinda’s artworks are an abstract expression of ideas sourced through her research and interest in people and place. Graphic and sculptural, Belinda’s works express her curiosity and wonder of the world. Her works are joyful and playful, and acutely site specific. Belinda’s catalogue of projects span a wide variety of sites and materials. She chooses fabrication processes and materials that complement the context and meaning of the artwork. The thread that connects them all is their articulate response to the situation and site.

Smith has exhibited work at galleries Nationally and internationally including  Artisan and Adderton House in Brisbane, Tweed Regional Gallery, Noosa Regional Gallery and the Textile Art Center in New York. Belinda co-founded Plummer & Smith in 2012 with Landscape architect, Dan Plummer.