Launch: Wednesday 27th May

Tent Theory is an ongoing project, predicated on examining models of spatial enclosure and mythologies of space. Reimagining the tent as a portal in which one can traverse space and time, this exhibition proposes visual negotiations between realms: public and private, inner and outer, real or imagined. Informed by urban geographer David Harvey and Henri Lefebvre’s text, La Production de l’espace (The Production of Space), Hunter’s works seek to question our understanding of what space is, and obscure its boundaries, resonances and behaviours; offering environments of fictionalised space and escapism.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Hunter Smith

Hunter (she/her) is a Naarm-based, multidisciplinary artist and painter, living and working on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boonwurrung people, the Kulin Nations. Hunter’s practice dissects mythologies of space through image collection and reproduction, spanning contested, imagined and extractive spaces.

Image by: Hunter Smith. Sound and Vision. 2026.