An Artist Guide to the Fair with Sarah Smuts-Kennedy – The Shape of Harmony

This tour opens up a conversation to consider how harmony takes form in contemporary art through rhythm, material, gesture, and composition. Across the fair, we’ll look at works that reveal beauty not as decoration, but as evidence of deeper coherence.

Smuts-Kennedy’s practice is focused on a research based investigation into fields of energy as they engage with conceptual thinking both within an art based language and other intuition driven modes of enquiry.

Her art practice synthesises broad research territories that integrate restorative horticultural and esoteric knowledge. Over the past decade she has been able to test these out at both a social sculptural scale across New Zealand, and her studio based practice. These projects have enabled her to develop embodied knowledge that has culminated in delivering large scale energy installations both within community, landscape and contemporary art contexts. The foundation of her practice centres around performing the possibility of healing with the outcomes of this performance (her life) giving form to artefacts that vibrate the qualities of joy, the vibration when experienced in the bodies of biological life occur as aliveness, balance and peacefulness.

Please arrive at 2:15pm to receive your headset.
Entry to this tour is on a first come, first serve basis and there are 20 spots available. There is no RSVP.
A valid ticket to the Aotearoa Art Fair 2026 is required for entry to this tour.