Sue Smith Art – modern paintings slipping between the real and the imagined

'From Bajool'

2011 Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 150cm (private collection)

'The cold of winter sweetens the summer' (detail)

2021 Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61cm

'Zen tide Pallarenda Beach'

2013 Diptych, Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 183cm. Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Collection

'Rainy day Kyoto' (detail)

2021, Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 61cm (private collection)

'A new dawn' (detail)

2021, Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 91cm

'Demeter' (detail)

2011, Acrylic on canvas, 61 x 76 cm (private collection)

'Swept Away' (detail)

2011, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 90 cm (private collection)

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Sue Smith is an artist, writer and curator based in Rockhampton, Queensland

“My goal is to create paintings that are visually arresting and give viewers pause to both smile and think about our shared human condition. My work exists in the intersection of my life and an imaginary world ― a sometimes surreal, parallel universe where I can go to escape and be lost inside.”

Winner of the 2023 $10,000 John Villiers Outback Art Prize - "Which way to Pine Gap, Mate?" (Click here for full image)

‘Spring Morning’ – Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90cm (private collection)

“Which way to Pine Gap, Mate?” – Acrylic on Canvas 91 x 61 cm Winner of the 2023 John Villiers Outback Art Prize. Acquisitive – Outback Regional Gallery, Winton, Queensland, Australia

‘The Herald’s Bugle Hails The Dawn’ (Alice in Wonderland Series) -Acrylic on canvas 120 x 100cm, framed (private collection)