Projects

Pup Tent Camera Obscura

Pup Tent Camera Obscura

Pup Tent Camera Obscura and artist Katie Hargrave in a  “Burned Landscape” Oregon Desert Trail, Bureau of Lands Management, Southern Oregon USA. 2016. In January 2016, armed militants occupied Malheur…

Conduit Open Space showing mirrors reflecting the skylight in Open Space Gallery 2011

Conduit: Open Space

Conduit is a collaboration between Trudi Lynn Smith and Jamie Drouin: CONDUIT Open Space Description (from Open Space gallery guide, written by the artists) Conduit emerged in response to a…

film still by Jamie Drouin of Conduit Roundhouse

Conduit

Collaboration with artist Jamie Drouin. Conduit:Roundhouse A video shows Smith sitting on a chair, documenting the surrounds with a small wooden camera – a swing-lens Kodak Panoram from the early…

detail images of exhibition finding aid by Trudi Lynn Smth

Finding Aid

Finding Aid is an alternative archive charting the impossibility of photography in Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta. Over the last decade my work has explored relationships between photography and protected…

Image showing portable camera obscura

Portable Camera Obscura

The work Portable Camera Obscura is a walk-in, room-sized camera, a tent that breaks into multiple pieces. A camera obscura is a lightproof room with a small hole or simple…

Installation view showing Trudi Lynn Smith under darkcloth of 16x20 camera

562 Fisgard

I’m interested in connections between feminist art practice and the studio and between 2011-2017 I worked with artist Lynda Gammon to make a series of interventions — an artist book,…