Leah King-Smith Australia (Aboriginal), 1957-.
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About Leah King-Smith
Leah King-Smith is a Bigambul descendant, visual artist, and lecturer in Brisbane, Australia. Her photography addresses cultural discord and she is best known for her photo compositions. King-Smith was born in Gympie Queensland in 1957 and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a PhD in visual arts at the Queensland University of Technology, and has been exhibiting since 1985. Her 'Patterns of Connection' series combines nineteenth-century Aboriginal portraits with her own photographs of the Victorian landscape and paint, repositioning Aboriginal people in a positive light and in a spiritual and living domain. King-Smith's work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 1998 'In the Realm of Phantoms' exhibition at the Museum Abteiberg in Germany and the Venice Biennales in 1997 and 1999. She has created several visual artworks as part of her practice-led research and was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to create four portraits of indigenous athletes for the 2006 Commonwealth Games. King-Smith's work is held in several collections across Australia, including the National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, as well as in private and international collections. In 2014, she was commissioned to make a public artwork for the Translink North Lakes Bus Station, and in 2016, her work was exhibited in the group exhibition 'Over the Fence, Contemporary Indigenous Photography' from the Corrigan Collection.
Our database records art auction sales of works by Leah King-Smith from 2001 and in total 16 works by the artist have been offered for sale, of which 11 (69%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $9,400 for Untitled No. 5 (From the Patterns of Connnection Series) 1991 sold by Deutscher~Menzies in November 2003. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2023. Works by Leah King-Smith are held by the National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW and a further six major public national galleries (see list below).
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- Australian Prints + Printmaking, a database listing printmaking artists from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region based on the print collection of the National Gallery of Australia.
Artists' Resale Royalty
Could the second and subsequent works by this artist sold after June 9, 2010 for over $1,000 be liable for the Artists' Resale Royalty? More info…
Yes, eligible, subject to the artist satisfying the residency test. The artist is alive or has been deceased for less than 70 years. Contact the Copyright Agency for information on the residency test.
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