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Tony Smibert featured in Tasmania's Ten Days on the Island
The Japan-Influenced Works of Tony Smibert
For over four decades, Tony Smibert has explored a dialogue between East and West, between tradition and reinvention, between Tasmania and Japan. Where Islands Meet brings together a selection of works from within his oeuvre that revealthe deep and evolving influence of Japanese aesthetics on Smibert’s practice, from his luminous watercolours to his bold, recent black acrylics on canvas.
Tony Smibert and Carmel Burns Meander Valley Moonrise, 1992, Screen print, 750 x 345 mm
Tony Smibert, Guardian, 1988 Watercolour, 260 x 180 mm
Tony Smibert and Yasuhio Chiji, Sunset Kimono and obi (detail), 1993 Raw silk woven with platinum and gold then hand painted by yuzen process in Kyoto
For more inflomation visit Ten Days on the Island: https://libraries.tas.gov.au/exhibitions/where-islands-meet/
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