Lyn Smuts

Lyn Smuts trained as a sculptor and printmaker, with her new work exploring the visual potency of objects. Here she focuses on the strangeness of purpose-made functional objects taken from their intended context.

Smuts was born in the Free State and studied at Michaelis School of Art, the  University of Natal, and Pietermaritzburg. She taught at the Visual Art Department of Stellenbosch University and latterly obtained a MA in Visual Arts from Stellenbosch. Smuts has exhibited extensively and her work has been included in private as well as public collections e.g. SA National Gallery, Sasol, Sanlam, Rand Merchant Bank, University of Stellenbosch, University of the Orange Free State, MTN Art Institute, and Hollard.