Anne Smerdon is an emerging Gold Coast based artist whose whimsical folk-fantasy works reflect her meticulous design skills and education as an architect. She holds a degree from the University of Queensland in Architectural Design and has shown her works in exhibitions throughout Australia, as well as in London and New York. Her portraits tell tales of autodidactic girls who have bridged the animal and human worlds to become one with nature, symbiotically nurturing fauna and flora and in turn, being nurtured by flora and fauna. She describes her works as visual narrations of the stories from within her head, which reflect her fascination with the notion of the fictional feral child of tales such as Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book and Henry De Vere Stacpoole’s The Blue Lagoon.

 

Anne is also represented by our partners Porter Contemporary, New York + Art and Escape, London