Lydia Smith Artist

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Artist Statement

Smith's work illustrates a dialogue between line and form. Creating geometry inside a physical and digital ecosystem. From Her hands to software to Her mind, and then back to Her hands, a dialogue starts to unfold. Her finished works are a balanced expression of this relationship. Their complex simplicity serves as a break of consciousness to the viewer. A stop and a pause.

Throughout this dialogue, Her mind is imagining our future as beings, both our spiritual and Avatar selves. She believes sculpture is a physicality that grounds us between these two worlds. Sculpture commands space. It forces the air (real or immersive) to move and flow around it.

 
 

Biography


Lydia Smith, born in 1995, is a multi-disciplined Artist working with historical and contemporary processes to realise her works. Her studio is based in Trafalgar Square, Central London. Through her practice, she explores the theme of Human connection, which encompasses subtopics, including Ancient History, Technology, Science, and Spirituality. She uses the physical and digital landscape to create sculptures, paintings and digital Art.  Working with the Ancient Material, Clay, She enters a flow state, allowing her concepts to express themselves subconsciously; once complete, using her unique method, her work metamorphoses into the digital realm. These pixilated forms inform the evolution of her process. 

Smith was trained in academic sculpture at the University of the Arts London (2014-2017). She also continued training at private ateliers in Greece, Spain and France. Smith's career regularly involves commissioned work within the British Film industry and collaborations with luxury brands. She has also represented Great Britain in international Snow and Ice carving championships in Switzerland and China. Exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery (2022), Christie’s (2023), Had her first solo show in Soho central London (2022) and co-produced the duo show ‘Soft Spaces’ in New Bond Street, Mayfair (2023). 

Exhibitions

2024 -

  • Blueprints of Form - Solo Show - St. Botolph’s building, Aldgate, London

  • The Future is Female - Group show - Chelsea Barracks, Chelsea, London

  • The Values We Share - Solo show and monumental sculpture Unveiling, The Royal Masonic School for Girls, Hertfordshire

  • What are you looking at? - Group Show - Maison Pan, Trafalgar Square, London

2023 -

  • Tutussie Art Fair - 27 - 29 Brook Street, Mayfair, London

  • Awakening: The Journey to the 5th Dimension - group show - South Kensington High Street

  • G A I A -  Dover Street Mayfair  - E  P  O  K  woman & Hub culture -  Frieze Week

  • CHRISTIE’S The Augusta Galleries - CHRISTIE’S Lates 50 years of Pablo Picasso - 14th September

  • JOHN REARDON: (AFTER) WHISTLEJACKET - 1st June - 1st July - MMX Gallery

  • Soft Spaces - New Bond street - 6th -12th March - Duo show with Evie Mae Jacobs

  • KOPPEL X Group show - 16th -25th March - 48 Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus

2022 -

  • The NFT Gallery - Dover Street Mayfair - 15th Dec - 21st Jan

  • Creative Mason - 14 Bedford Square - Fitzrovia - 12th -30th Nov - The Artist workspace Gallery & Vie d’Artiste

  • Saatchi Gallery - STart - 13th -16th October - Frieze Week

  • Future Antiquity - Mayfair - in collaboration with E P O K woman & Hub culture - Frieze Week

  • Sculpture & Design intersects the Digital World - Mayfair - in collaboration with E P O K woman & WAAW London

  • Feminine & Form - Solo Show - in collaboration with E P O K woman - Mayfair London - 8th March - 30th April

  • PAUSE - Solo Show - Thirteen Soho Square London - Soho London - 1st Feb - 10th Feb

2021 -

  • London Art Biennale - Chelsea Town Hall - Chelsea London

  • Tebbs Contemporary Art gallery - Surreal - Virtual Group show

2020 -

  • Creativity during a pandemic - Wycombe Art Centre - High Wycombe Buckinghamshire

  • Longwick Art Fair - Chiltern MS Centre - Wendover Buckinghamshire

2019 -

  • Time and Place - Wycombe Arts Centre

  • Summer Salon - Candid Arts Trust - Islington London

  • Bucks Art Weeks - Buckinghamshire Open Studios

2018 -

  • Daft Arts and Music - Wycombe Art Centre

Press

Awards

  • 2019 GloTIME.tv - The Silver Screen Ball - The Silvia Anderson Award for Creativity

  • 2019 Best creativity - China, Harbin International Snow and Ice Championships

  • 2019 4th Place - China, Harbin International Snow and Ice Championships

  • 2019 3rd Place- Grindelwald World Snow Sculpture Festival

  • 2018 2nd Place- Grindelwald World Snow Sculpture Festival

  • 2017 2nd Place- Grindelwald World Snow Sculpture Festival

Residencies

Education

  • (2013) University of the Arts London - Foundation Art diploma

  • (2014 -2017) University of the Arts London - BA Honors Degree

  • (2018) Mapstone Studio - ‘The alchemy of sculpture’ with Robert Bodem

  • (2019) Athens Sculpture Atelier - ‘Drawing in Space’ with Robert Bodem

  • (2020) Geode Art Space - ‘ Sculpting and painting the figure’ with Eudald De Juana Gorriz

  • (2021) Mapstone and Vouzeron - ‘Sculpting the figure’ with Grzegorz Gwiazda

Film and Tv

  • Tomb Raider, 2018

  • The Kid who would be King

  • Game of Thrones, Season 8

  • The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle

  • Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker

  • Avenue 5

  • Cinderella, 2021

  • Eternals

  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

  • Lockwood and co.

  • Snow White, 2024

  • The Gorge

  • Gladiator 2

  • House of the Dragon - Season two

Public Speaking

  • 2022 - Frieze week Breaking down data on the representation of female Artist’s - WAAW London x The Twenty Two

  • Private Panel Film, Metaverse, NFT & Art - Mayfair Meet Up

  • Private Panel blockchain, NFT’s, metaverse - Canary Wharf