Kenneth Michael Smith Australia, 1951-.
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About Kenneth Michael Smith
Ken Smith was born in Melbourne in 1951. He was awarded a Diploma of Art (Painting) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1974 and a Diploma of Art at the same institution in 1981. A modern painter in oil, acrylic, gouache and pencil, he was awarded the Hugh Ramsay Portrait Prize at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1973. From 1979 to 1983 he was the Visiting Artist at the Gippsland institute of Advanced Education. He worked and studied in the UK and Europe in 1983 and 1984. More recently Smith has been a finalist in the Fleurieu Art Prize (2018), the Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize (2015, 2016), the John Leslie Art Prize (2016). He was Lecturer in Drawing at Monash University's Faculty of Art Design and Architecture until 2014. Ken Smith has exhibited regularly in Melbourne since 1979.
The total number of works by Kenneth Smith offered for sale by auction since 1992 is 7, of which 6 (86%) were sold. The highest price recorded for the artist is $4,387 for Seawall Objects Ocean 1 sold by Goodmans Auctioneers in July 2003. No works have been offered for sale this year, and the last sale we have recorded for the artist was in 2007.
Kenneth Michael Smith is listed in the following standard biographical references:
- McCulloch, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch, Emily McCulloch-Childs. The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art. 4th Edition, Aus Art Melbourne & The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Page 896
- Germaine, Max. Artists and Galleries of Australia, Volumes 1 & 2, Third Edition. Craftsman Press, Sydney, 1990. Page 632
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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