Collaboration: Visual Art Meets Poetry
Visual artist Kate Smith and poet Lachlan Brown have collaborated on a tryptic of works combining their individual mediums – painting and writing. In this conversation, the two creatives will discuss the process of working together, what draws them to their respective artforms and the creative potential of working collaboratively.
Kate Smith has exhibited extensively across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand including in significant surveys of contemporary art at National Gallery Victoria, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and Heide Museum of Modern Art. In 2022, Smith was featured in the painting survey Zombie Eaters at MAMA.
Lachlan Brown is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga. He is the author of two books of poetry published by Giramondo, Limited Cities (2017) and Lunar Inheritance (2017). Lachlan’s poems have been shortlisted and commended for various poetry prizes including the Blake Poetry Prize, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Peter Porter Poetry Prize and the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize. His poem “Any Saturday, 2021, Running Westward” won the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Lachlan’s poems have appeared in The Australian, Antipodes, Rabbit, Australian Poetry Journal and Cordite. Lachlan’s poetic commissions include "Flow State" for the Powerhouse Museum and "Vox-Proximate" for ABC Everyday. He has chaired the judging panel for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry in the NSW Premier’s Literary awards and has experience judging many other poetry and literary prizes.
