Jessica Smith
Jessica Smith (b. 2001) is an emerging artist living and working on Darkinjung Country. Her ceramics-based practice explores the complex entanglements of cultural, material, and geological histories embedded within clay bodies. Smith graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in ceramics, from the National Art School on Gadigal Country (2022). At the annual Graduate Exhibition, she was the inaugural recipient of the Merran Esson Student Award. She has been a finalist in several prizes, including the Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2023, 2024), the Gosford Art Prize (2021, 2023, 2024), and was awarded second place in the 2022 Shelley Simpson Ceramics Prize.
