Wood Engravings - Ian Kingsford-Smith

The artworks signal both Egyptian tombs and medieval European art that represented the relationship between the sacred and the profane. These cultural references are combined to demonstrate the extent that existential concerns transverse both disparate paradigms of thought and religious doctrine. Kingsford-Smith sees himself as a visual storyteller. “In my art practice,” he says, “history, personal history, memory, family records, ambitions, fantasy, dreams, mythology and spirituality” all combine to create enigmatic narratives.

Ian has had solo exhibitions at ARO Gallery, Sydney, Artefacts /Unburied Treasure 2019, ARO Gallery, Sydney, Votives 2018, Spazio Tadini Museum, Milan, Italy, Narrative Fragments of Life 2018 with the Lineage (2017) artworks being accepted into their permanent collection, ARO Gallery, Sydney, Afterlife 2017, M2 Gallery, Sydney, 2016 Lineage, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, 2015 Mappa Vitae, GAFFA, Sydney, 2014 Pilgrimage, Global Gallery, 2013 Dreams in Captivity, 2012 Australian Stories, 2011 Dingoes, 2010 Trees on Paper and group exhibitions in painting and printmaking in Florence Italy, New York USA, Melbourne, Cairns and Auckland NZ.

Ian was a finalist in the Inkmasters Biennial, Cairns 2014 and 2018 and finalist in the Australian Contemporary Art Award 2016. The Settlers artwork from the Australian Stories series was accepted in the Yu Kyung Art Museum, Geoje, South Korea, permanent collection.

His work is represented in private and corporate collections in Italy, USA, Sweden, France, Germany, Wales, England, New Zealand and Australia.