AUSTRALIAN GALLERIES - MELBOURNE28 Derby Street, Collingwood
Vic 3166 On Silver Plains 23 September - 11 October 2025 Please feel welcome to join me for my first solo exhibition with Australian Galleries - Melbourne! Opening 6pm - Tuesday 23 September Artist Statement This series of prints reflect my ongoing connection to Lake Sorell on Tasmania’s Central Plateau, and for this exhibition, more specifically, to the surrounding Silver Plains. This work expresses a quiet call to tread lightly, listen deeply, and raise an awareness to protect this unique highland landscape. |
wonderground gallery130 Heinze Road
Seppeltsfield, SA 19 September 2025 - 2 November 2025 This refined and intimate exhibition celebrates printmakers whose work displays exceptional skill while transporting the viewer into other realms - works that are both thought- provoking and immersive, revealing the quiet power of printmaking to connect, communicate4, and transcend. Curated by Georgia Cheesman, the 2025 exhibition brings together eight accomplished printmakers from across Australia, each with a distinct visual language and mastery of their medium. Artists Peta West, Dianne Fogwell, Melissa Smith, David Frazer, Margie Sheppard, Grace Gladdish, Anita Laurence, Georgia Cheesman. Image: Melissa Smith, Between time and place, 2024, intaglio print on Magnani paper, 100 x 66cm (diptych) |
SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY-WORKS ON PAPERCarriageworks Art Centre,
Eveleigh Sydney, NSW 11- 14 September 2025 Excited to be one of the ten printmakers invited by the Jenny Robinson Studio - Sydney to participate in the production of a print folio titled - 'Beyond the Matrix' to be exhibited at the Sydney Contemporary - Works on Paper Fair. Each artist produced an edition variable of sixteen prints. Melissa Smith: 'In the fading light', 2025, intaglio print on Fabriano Rosapina, 50 x 50cm |
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School House Gallery
Rosny, Tasmania 22 Rosny Hill Road Rosny Park, TAS 30 May 2025 - 22 June 2025 As printmakers the proof is the image we make prior to editioning a series of prints taken from a matrix of wood, lino, metal or mesh. It's the image which best represents the final concept of what we need to communicate visually to the viewer. Proof is also evidence presented that convinces the mind that something is true. Sometimes we only need one proof to deliver our vision, sometimes we need many variations of proofs to get us to that point. Artists: Ange Cooper, Kaye Green, Raymond Arnold, Alex White, Annalise Rees, Helen Mueller, Anthony Curran, Antonia Aitken, Jennifer Marshall, Emma Magnussion-Reid, Grace Gladdish, Hope Smith, Jan Hogan, Lex Palmer Bull, Melissa Smith, Michael Schlitz, Natasha Rowell, Nicole O'Loughlin, Olivia Moroney, Rebecca Coote, Tim Coad, Belinda Hall, Damon Bird Image: Antonia Aitken, caressing another's Country, 2024, intaglio hand print |
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Poimena Gallery
Launceston Church Grammar School Launceston, Tasmania 7 June 2025 - 27 June 2025 An exhibition of printmakers demonstrating the many varied techniques and processes that the nowhereprint collective and friends utilise to present their views and the worlds they live in. Artists: Ange Cooper, Kaye Green, Raymond Arnold, Alex White, Annalise Rees, Helen Mueller, Anthony Curran, Antonia Aitken, Jennifer Marshall, Emma Magnussion-Reid, Grace Gladdish, Hope Smith, Jan Hogan, Lex Palmer Bull, Melissa Smith, Michael Schlitz, Natasha Rowell, Nicole O'Loughlin, Olivia Moroney, Rebecca Coote, Tim Coad, Belinda Hall, Damon Bird Images: top - Artist, Annalise Rees ; bottom - Artist, Grace Gladdish |
Tiadlectics PortfolioThe International Printmaking Conference in Puerto Rico, for which this portfolio was created, was cancelled due to the pandemic. Now, five years later, this conference will take place from 2-25 April.
The portfolio will be exhibited in San Juan during this period. Tidalectics Portfolio - curated by Eveline Kolijn Eleven international printmakers (Melissa Smith, AUST) were connected with eleven ocean and marine biology researchers. the artists created a visual response on scientific research. Science and Art share the principles of observation and creativity. hand crafted prints move the technical talk of science into the emotional domain of public discourse. Puertograbando SGCI 2025 San Juan, Puerto Rico 2 - 5 April 2025 |
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Art at Wharepuke
190 Kerikeri Rd., Kerkeri, NEW ZEALAND 13 March - 13 April 2025 The artist collective ‘nowhereprint’ represents a group of contemporary artists working in lutruwita/Tasmania. The name for ‘nowhereprint’ is borrowed from the Tasmanian printmaker Bea Maddock who played with these words in her 1974 prints now-here and no-where. The artists involved in this collective range from emerging to established in their practice, working in a range of printmaking techniques and approaches. The ‘nowhere’ artists acknowledge the significance of living and making on Iutruwita/Tasmania, where Palawa people tended the land through millennia of inhabitation. This island place generates the context from which each artist questions personal and political, mythological and narrative connections. Drawing upon their own individual and collective relations to this island, these artists are inspired by Iutruwita/Tasmania’s unique ecosystems and cultural histories. The prints in this exhibition represent each artists interpretation of these themes. Represented artists from the Tasmanian print collective ‘nowhereprint’ in this exhibition: Damon Bird, Tony Curran, Mindy Doré, Grace Gladdish, Jan Hogan, Emma Magnusson-Reid, Olivia Moroney, Helen Mueller, Natasha Rowell, Michael Schlitz, Hope Smith, Melissa Smith |
TIDALECTICS PORTFOLIOThis Print Portfolio was curated by Eveline Kolijn and was completed in 2020.
It continues to be exhibited and promoted by Eveline in various venues around the world in order to share the important messages it contains about the impact on our ocean environments and the work being done to care for them. Eleven international printmakers (Melissa Smith, AUST) were connected with eleven ocean and marine biology researchers. the artists created a visual response on scientific research. Science and Art share the principles of observation and creativity. hand crafted prints move the technical talk of science into the emotional domain of public discourse. University of South Carolina Beaufort Center for the Arts Sea Islands Center Gallery 805 & 1106 Carteret Street Beaufort SC March 2025 |
ASSEMBLAGEAustralian Galleries - Melbourne
28 Derby Street, Collingwood, VIC 4 - 22 February 2025 Artwork details: Graeme Drendel The traveller ( detail) 2024 31x31cm Melissa Smith Between time and place (detail) intaglio print on Magnani paper 100x 66cm edition 3 I Mary Tonkin Log Song, Kalorama ( detail) 2020 pencil on paper 28.5x 237cm I Ayako Saito Unravelled in time (detail) 2023 steel, painted 39x39x11cm I Margie Sheppard Pathways (detail) 2023 oil on canvas 180 x 120cm I Sophie Perez Secret lives of memorable things (detail) 2024 oil on canvas 187x224cm I Hilary Finch XIX (detail) 2023-24 archival print on Hahnemule photo rag Bartya 315gsm 100x150cm edition 7 |
the ecologies projectThe Ecologies Project looks at the effects climate change has had on deep time of human culture. With First Nations voices and continuing calls for the importance of sustainability, this show asks: how does a changing ecology change our culture?
Ten thousand years ago the Mornington Peninsula did not exist. The Bunurong / BoonWurrung people were People of the River not People of the Sea and their traditional lands extended to what is now the top of the north-west/central Tasmania. Climate changes culture. The current climate calamity differs from previous mega-changes in that it has come from us; our colonial, extractionist and capitalist culture has changed the climate. The exhibition looks at generational conversations about climate, what the changes might look and feel like and what we are creating now that will make it into a wider cultural milieu. With over 60 works, including photographs, painting, prints, installation, video and sound work. 8 December 2024 - 16 March 2025 Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Civic Reserve, Dunns Road, Mornington, Vic 3931 Image: Melissa Smith, 2016, Tidal Sweep study, linocut |
terrainThis exhibition brings together a collection of original prints produced by artists in collaboration with APW's highly skilled printers that explore the intersection of home, place, and the hidden stories of the natural world. Through a variety of printmaking techniques including lithography and intaglio, the works reflect the intimate connections between us and the environments we inhabit. Featuring striking works by artists Andrew Browne, Megan Cope, Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison, Janice Murray, Melissa Smith and Pedro Wonaeamirri, each print acts as a window into the artists world where places become living, breathing stories. 3 December 2024 - 1 February 2025 Australian Print Workshop 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 Image: Melissa Smith, 2016 In Whisper I, lithograph |
IMPRESSIONS-LAND, SEA and skyA new suite of original prints by five leading contemporary women artist/printmakers from around Australia:
Lee Darroch (Raymond Island, VIC) Chris de Rosa (Port Elliot, SA) Kate Gorringe-Smith (Melbourne, VIC) Jo Lankester (Townsville, QLD) Melissa Smith (Launceston, TAS) Connected through their interest in the environment and their engagement with the natural world, each of the artists worked in collaboration with APW printers to produce new work in the print medium. Employing a range of printmaking techniques and mediums, this suite of original prints includes multi-plate intaglios, lithographs and relief prints. 24 August - 12 October 2024 Australian Print Workshop Gallery 210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 Image: Melissa Smith, 2024, Narrative lines of the Lake I & II, lithograph and etching |
WINTER ESCAPEAustralian Galleries - Melbourne
28 Derby Street, Collingwood, VIC 30 July 2024 - 17 August 2024 Top Image details, left to right Inge King: Black Sun, second version maquette, 1974-23 Hilary Finch: X, 2021-22 Melissa Smith: In a current of clouds 2024 intaglio print and stencil on Magnani paper, 76.5 x 56cm |
the 12th ulsan International woodcut & linocut print festival 2024Represented artists from Australia -
Bridget Hillebrand (Australian Commissioner) Melissa Smith Clare Humphries Michael Schlitz Jazimina Cininas Exhibiting countries include South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, China, Thailand, Germany, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, France and Australia 20 July – 28 July 2024 Opening Ceremony Friday 19 July 2024, 5.00pm Ulsan Culture and Arts Center, South Korea. Image: Worlds within Worlds II, 2018, linocut |
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finalist- waterhouse natural science art prizeSouth Australian Museum
North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 3 June 2022 - 7 August 2022 The Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize was launched in 2002 and commemorates the birth of the South Australian Museum’s first curator, Frederick George Waterhouse. The prize is an opportunity for artists to investigate the world around them, and present their perspectives on natural science. It encourages artists to make a statement about the scientific issues facing our planet, and offers a valuable platform for them to contribute to the environmental debate. |
The natural worldAustralian Print Workshop
Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 9 November 2021 - 29 January 2022 The first in a series of four exhibitions to celebrate APW'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY. FEATURING ORIGINAL FINE ART PRINTS BY: ROSALIND ATKINS, DAVID BOSUN, ANDREW BROWNE, SHANE COTTON, MERCE CUNNINGHAM, PETER ELLIS, ADRIENNE GAHA, ANDY GOLDSWORTHY, PEGGY GRIFFITHS, GRACIA HABY AND LOUISE JENNISON, FIONA HALL, KATE HUDSON, KYOKO IMAZU, TIM JONES, LOUIS KARADADA, JENNY KITCHENER, BARBIE KJAR, HERTHA KLUGE-POTT, TIM MAGUIRE, MARION MANIFOLD, EX DE MEDICI, JANICE MURRAY, PATRICIA PICCININI, LISA ROET, CHRIS DE ROSA, CAROLINE ROTHWELL, MELISSA SMITH, LOUISE WEAVER AND JOHN WOLSELEY. Leave no trace I 2016 photolithograph 93.5cm x 67.5cm |
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The Gallows Gallery Launceston College Paterson Street, Launceston TAS 22 July - 3 September 2021 A snapshot of 25 years of Melissa Smith's printmaking practice from her first exhibition in 1996 to current work being produced for the Devonport Regional Art Gallery as the Solo Commission for 2021. Self Portrait with Barbary Pigeon II 1997 linocut 33.5 x 36.5cm |
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FROM A DISTANCE
Exhibition of contemporary Tasmanian printmakers curated by Helen Mueller and Melissa Smith MAY SPACE ONLINE www.mayspaceonlin.com 1 - 31 July 2021 CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS ANTONIA AITKEN • RAYMOND ARNOLD • LEX PALMER BULL • TIM COAD • REBECCA COOTE • MINDY DORÉ • JAN HOGAN • JENNIFER MARSHALL • OLIVIA MORONEY • HELEN MUELLER • JONATHAN PARTRIDGE • NATASHA ROWELL • MICHAEL SCHLITZ • MELISSA SMITH Lake Whispers #2 2021 intaglio and stencil 45 x 38cm |
INTAGLIO ONLINE EXHIBITIONMegalo Print Studio, Canberra ACT
2 July - 19 July 2021 Listen Deeply - Lake Sorell 2021 intaglio print (triptych) 76 x 120cm |
Herself: Inspiring artists from the CollectionQueen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Royal Park, Launceston, Tasmania Opening 5 December 2020 HERSELF is a sweeping exhibition showcasing works by female identifying artists in the QVMAG collections. Representing artist from 1820 to 2020, works in this exhibition include textiles, photography, painting, prints, video, jewellery and furniture. |
INTAGLIO ONLINE EXHIBITIONMegalo Print Studio, Canberra ACT
4 August - 5 September 2020 |
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Curtin University, Building 200A, Kent Street, Bentley WA
4 October - 8 December 2019 This exhibition brings together a selection of contemporary print media artworks that have been acquired through the Print Council of Australia's annual Print commission...including one of mine! |
The Blue of Distance |
HABITAT - WEST THEBARTON GALLERY24 May 2018 - 24 June 2018 Habitat is an audio-visual exhibition combining the work of nine Australian printmakers with corresponding interpretive soundscapes. It is a space where two senses meet in order to investigate the way in which the idea of place and identity is formed through sight and sound. GW Bot, Jan Davis, Rona Green, Alexi Keywan, Martin King, Bruce Latimer, Melissa Smith, Graham Fransella, Travis Paterson and Jay-Dea Lopez. Opening night: 6pm Friday 25 May 2018. https://www.westgallerythebarton.com.au/habitat#/melissa-smith/ West Thebarton Gallery, 32 West Thebarton Road, South Australia https://www.westgallerythebarton.com.au |
The Blue of DistanceHandmark Gallery - 77 Salamanca Place, Hobart, TASMANIA
handmark.com.au Exhibition dates 2 - 19 February 2018 |
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AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP GALLERY- Current ExhibtionSPRING FEAST
A selection of original limited edition fine art prints celebrating the essence of spring. Works by Butcher Cherel, Kyoko Imazu, Deborah Klein, Tim Maguire, Tommy May, Melissa Smith and Louise Weaver. 16 September - 11 November 2017210 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, Victoria 3065 T: (03) 9419 5466 E: [email protected] www.australianprintworkshop.com |
Leave no trace I & II 2016
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natureExcited to be part of this exhibition at the AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP, Gertrude Street, Melbourne
22 April - 3 June, 2017 Artist Reception 2 - 4pm 13 May, 2017 |
PROOF: THE BEST OF CONTEMPORARY PRINTMAKING:November 25, 2016 — December 23, 2016
Port Jackson Press, 84 Smith Street, Collingwood, Victoria portjacksonpress.com.au |
AUSTRALIAN PRINT WORKSHOP23 - 29 October, 2016
A wonderful week at the Australian Print Workshop in Melbourne working with Master printer, Martin King on a Collaborative print project. |
parallel printsParallel Prints 2015 NZ/Australia features Mark Graver from Wharepuke, NZ and eleven invited artists from Australia.
The project takes the same form as the original Parallel Prints 2013 NZ/UK with simultaneous exhibitions and a set of 24 archival portfolios. The exhibitions will take place at Art at Wharepuke in Kerikeri, New Zealand from the 3rd – 31st October and at the Art Gallery of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia from 3rd October to 22nd November 2015. |