Gemma Smith: Found Ground
Formist Editions
‘Dog-eared’ pages aren’t usually synonymous with high-end art publications. However ‘Found Ground’s’ elegant and clever design celebrates the formal and conceptual underpinnings of Gemma Smith’s practice with energy that is exciting for the initiated and those discovering the artist’s approach to painting. Folded corners divide the limited edition title’s chapters, which traverse reproductions and an essay by Julie Ewington surveying the nuance and vigour of Smith’s work. Ewington writes, ‘The primary pleasure that Smith offers with her paintings… is the surprise of perceiving colour, immediately and directly… We are jolted into fresh ways of looking, into actually working at the business of perceiving the world. It’s a way of being alive.’
