Brittany
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Walker
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Smith
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Brittany 〰️ Walker 〰️ Smith 〰️
Awards and Grants
2020: Eden Arts Awards Overall Winner
2020: Gow Langsford Art Prize Finalist
Publications
2024: Folly Journal, Volume 2 – Artworks featured
2020: ArtZone Magazine – Artwork featured
2025: Art Paper 07, MYTH
Collections
The Fears are Mounting (2021), Arts House Trust Collection, Auckland, New Zealand
Brittany Walker Smith is an Auckland-based artist whose work constructs hyper-feminine, high-gloss worlds as a way of reworking personal experience into something more seductive, more controlled, and ultimately more bearable. Drawing on the visual language of velvet paintings, romance imagery, and decorative excess, her practice leans into fantasy as both a coping mechanism and a form of critique, where glamour, humour, and material indulgence sit alongside discomfort and contradiction. These figures are not direct self-portraits, but stylised versions of the self that move between sincerity and performance, offering a version of events that feels more desirable than reality, and therefore more true to how they are remembered. Smith has exhibited in New Zealand and Australia, including presentations at George Fraser Gallery, RM Gallery and Plomacy.
Solo Exhibitions
Thank You For Sharing, I Really Appreciate It, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2023)
If Only I Were That Easy To Get Rid Of, Elam University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand (2024)
A Series of Completely Accurate Self-Portraits, RM Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2026
Group Exhibitions
Have You Ever Been Crying In A Hospital In Full Drag?, Never Project Space, Hamilton, New Zealand (2022)
End-to-End (P.T.2), Ethan Frome & SCA Project Space, Sydney, Australia (2024)
Superstore, Plomacy, Ponsonby, Auckland (2025)
Creature Comforts, Plomacy, Ponsonby, Auckland (2025)
For enquiries: brittanywsmith@gmail.com
Insta: @brittanywalkersmith
