Events and artist talks at The Arts House Trust as part of Mickey Smith: Morphologies
Opening Night Thu 5 March 5:30 – 7:30pm Join us for a drink and a bite to eat as we celebrate the opening of Mickey Smith: Morphologies, on view 5 March - 24 May 2026.
Mickey Smith is a master chronicler of libraries, having turned her camera to these repositories of knowledge for over two decades. Her prolific series explore the life cycles of library collections and the labour of those who steward them.
Morphologies presents insights through work from her long-form documentary Volume, plus highlights from Denudation, As You Will: Carnegie Libraries of the South Pacific and new installation-based artworks.
From chained libraries to digitisation, deaccessioning and artificial intelligence, Morphologies asks us to consider our evolving relationships with books and the institutions that shape our collective cultural memory.
In Conversation: Christina Barton & Mickey Smith Fri 6 March 11.00am – 12.00pm
Join writer, Christina Barton, and artist, Mickey Smith, for a discussion on knowledge, memory, archives and books.
This conversation is inspired by Smith’s exhibition, Morphologies, which explored the evolving life cycles of books and libraries, from medieval chained collections to the digital age, and what these transformations reveal about memory, culture, and our shared relationship with knowledge.
