Blue Highway
Artist: Helen Smith
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: Unknown
Location: 120 Rokeby Road Subiaco 6008
Provenance: City of Subiaco
Image source City of Subiaco
Tingle 2010
Artist: Helen Smith and Jeremy Kirwan-Ward
Year of Work: 2010
Location: Lords 3 Price Street Subiaco
Asset Type: Wall Work
Provenance: City of Subiaco
Image courtesy of Subiaco
Ace
Image source City of Subiaco
Artist: Helen Smith, AC4CA (Australian Centre for Concrete Art)
Asset Type: Mural
Year of Work: 2012
Location: Anvil Street behind the ACE cinema
Provenance: City of Subiaco
Decommissioned Status: Building demolished in 2015
Description: Helen Smith has cleverly transformed a concrete box with minimalist geometry into an aesthetically and mathematically beautiful interruption of an otherwise monotonous municipal landscape. The elegant organisation of colour and shape creates an optical manipulation of the surface and our perspective. Ace is one of four semi-permanent wall works in Subiaco by the Australian Centre for Concrete Art (AC4CA) to be found between Railway and Thomas roads.
Helen Smith is an Honours Graduate of Curtin University whose large-scale paintings and photographic works are included in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Daimler-Chrysler Foundation in Berlin, Australian Embassy in Madrid, as well as many private collections.
Established in 2001, AC4CA is a collective of Western Australian and international artists who create interventions as a way of injecting some joy into our everyday urban spaces. Location and scale determine their deceptively simple murals, which can be found in Fremantle, Subiaco, Paris, Basel and Berlin.