Lydia Smith's practice is rooted in automatism, a process that allows intuition to lead and the unconscious to shape each work.

Beginning in clay, she works without fixed ideas, allowing research, observation and lived experience to settle before resurfacing instinctively through making. Through this process, Smith explores invisible systems of knowledge and relation, drawing from histories of ancient belief, technological innovation, scientific enquiry and spiritual thought.

Clay remains the foundation of her practice. Working fluidly between sculpture, drawing and digital media, Smith treats material as a process of translation. Digital scans and works on paper do not reproduce the sculpture but extend it, forming an evolving system in which each transformation generates new ways of reading form.

Observation sits at the centre of her practice, uncovering unexpected relationships between seemingly distant subjects. Rather than offering fixed conclusions, Smith uses sculpture as a way of thinking.

Through continual acts of observation and material transformation, her work investigates how knowledge is constructed and how hidden systems shape our understanding of the internal and external.



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“My work explores how instinct and data shape human identity, how form can exist simultaneously in material and digital states.”

- Lydia Smith


Bio


Lydia Smith (b. 1995) is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, drawing and digital media. Rooted in sculpture and developed through a hybrid practice that moves between physical and digital processes, her work investigates the hidden systems that shape how individuals and societies operate.

Smith combines intuitive making with research drawn from archaeology, science, technology and cultural history. Digital scanning forms an integral part of her practice, allowing sculptures to evolve across multiple forms rather than existing in a single state.

Smith studied at the University of the Arts London: Wimbledon College of Art (2014–2017) before continuing her training at private sculpture ateliers in Greece, Spain and France. She has exhibited at Christie's, the Saatchi Gallery and Bowman Sculpture, and presented solo exhibitions across London. Her work has been featured in The Telegraph, The Guardian, Mayfair Times, L'Officiel and TO BHMA.



Exhibitions


2026 -

  • Web of Life - Group Show, Kindred Studios (June- September)

  • Circle - Group show, WAAW World, Maison Fifth North Kensington (June)

  • Hamlet - Group show, Cramer St Gallery x The Hari , (March - Sept)

  • Sphere States - Solo Show, works on paper, Chiltern Street Deli (Feb-April)

  • London Art Fair - Cramer Street Gallery, Booth E19 (20 - 25 Jan)

  • FORM – Primal Rhythm - Group Show with Cramer Street Gallery (7 Jan - 1 Feb)

2025 -

  • Kilidoscopic Loops - Solo show curated by Lydia Higton, Maison Pan, Trafalgar Square, London (24 - 29 June)

  • Transending Time: Blueprints of Form - Solo show presented by ArtMoorHouse, Angel Court Bank, London (April -June)

  • Echoes of Identity, The Auction Collective, Maison Pan, Trafalgar Square, London (5 December – 15 January)

2024 -

  • Bowman Sculpture, , 6 Duke Street, St James’s, London, SW1Y 6BN (31st October – 22nd November)

  • Underground Muse: From Muse to Artist - produced by Fé collective, Maison Pan 6-11 Suffolk St, London, SW1Y 4HG (17th -22nd September)

  • Between Dimension- The Good Times House, The Cotswolds (13th September - 4th October)

  • NEXT GEN MASTERS: Bicester Village x LUX Emerging Artists - Online Exhibition (June - August)

  • FRACTALS - Solo Show - High street Kensington in collaboration with Russo Fine Jewels for Kensington & Chelsea Art week

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

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

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

  • 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 -MMX Gallery ( 1st June - 1st July)

  • Soft Spaces - New Bond street - Duo show (6th -12th March)

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

2022 -

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

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

  • 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



Selected Press

Art & Design Publications

Digital & Web3 Media

Broadcasts & Interviews

Earlier Coverage

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



Lydia Smith is an emerging contemporary sculptor based in London. Her practice focuses on abstract sculpture in bronze and marble, developed through a process-led approach that explores form, balance, and material presence. Working within London’s contemporary art context, Smith’s work engages with traditional sculptural materials through a modern abstract language, positioning her practice within current discussions around sculpture, materiality, and emerging artists in the UK.