Dreaming Mum again by Leah King-Smith
In 2018 to accompany the Bowness Photography Prize exhibition, MGA launched an annual exhibition series to showcase and explore the practice of a past winner or finalist.
Chromogenic print, 105 x 86 cm, courtesy of the artist.
Leah King-Smith is both a previous Bowness Photography Prize finalist and an MGA collection artist. King-Smith is a Queensland-based artist with a photographic practice extending across three decades. This exhibition presents the series, Dreaming Mum again, which includes King-Smith’s Bowness Photography Prize work from 2018. The series depicts the artist’s mother placed back into the context of her ancestral lands through her signature process of layering photographs.
Chromogenic print, printed 2019, 93 x 93 cm, courtesy of the artist.
