The exhibition’s title, Rumble, serves as a dual metaphor, referring simultaneously to a physical confrontation and a deep, vibrating pressure seeking release. Smit employs this tension to explore the friction between inner experience and the social self, utilising images of women physically grappling with one another.

Through a distinctive ferocity of mark-making, these paintings revel in the muscle, force, and weight of women’s bodies. Smit’s works remain intentionally ambivalent , teetering on a line between aggression and tenderness.

On view in the Mezzanine Gallery until 23 April 2026

This exhibition was made possible thanks to the support from the National Arts Council.