Education
Smith graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1988 with a Bachelor (Honours) in Fine Artist In 1995 she completed an Master of Arts in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College.
Smith graduated from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1988 with a Bachelor (Honours) in Fine Artist In 1995 she completed an Master of Arts in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College.
Smith works within the documentary genre but she photographs places of fantasy and escapism. Smith is interested in the places where people go to seek refuge from the outside world: to escape boredom, to be diverted, transported, absorbed – places to lose oneself, where pretence and reality are often confused. Smith"s photographs have documented the construction of fantasy and the architecture of entertainment, the function of which is to disconnect people from their everyday lives and concerns.
Since 2005 her practice has expanded to include both still and moving images which address our struggle to feel connected: within society, the landscape and the wider universe.
The photographs and videos often point to the gap between one’s imagination and reality and the interplay between the two. The work flits between objectivity and subjectivity, the real and the fake.
The Occupants: Contemporary Perspectives on the Picker House, a group exhibition at Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston, 2012We Must Live! a solo exhibition Frith Street Gallery, London, 2011Government Art Collection: Selected by Cornelia Parker: Richard of York Gave Battle In Vain, a group exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2011Nobody Else Even Knows, a solo exhibition at Peer, London, 2010Killing Time, a solo exhibition at Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 2008Stardust or the Last Frontier, a group exhibition at Musée Doctorate’art Contemporain, Val de Marne, 2007Rebuild, a solo exhibition at De Louisiana Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, 2006Cosmos, a solo exhibition at Frith Street Gallery, London, 2005 – 2006.
