Approved: 11.10.2012

Suzanne Smith

Artist, Arts development worker, Community worker, Gallery educator

Approved: 11.10.2012

I am an interdisciplinary fine artist based in Manchester, UK. Working with appropriation and collage, I often use text, found objects, photography, film and found image.  

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Artist Statement

I am an interdisciplinary fine artist based in Manchester, UK. Working with appropriation and collage, I often use text, found objects, photography, film and found image.  

Fascinated with the politics of the everyday, my practice is the negotiation of an environment saturated with social norms and conventions. It is the tension in the mundanity, the something in the nothing that really gets me going...feeling for the edges where negotiation and collusion take place. Through accumulation, play and control I impose a preferred order on my subject, pinning it down long enough to take a closer look. 

CV & Education

Qualifications and training

PGCE Art & Design, Institute of Education, Manchester 2012

MA Cultural Theory, Lancaster University 2008 (Postgraduate Scholarship, Arts and Humanities Research Council)

BA Fine Art, Manchester School of Art 2007

 

Solo exhibitions

Homunculus, Art Gene, Barrow-in-Furness 2015

Sometimes You Can Tell & You Tense & Lo & Behold They Do, Greenroom, Manchester 2007

Fear of Small Things, Lowry Project Space, Salford 2006

 

Group exhibitions

Shape Open 2017, Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London 2017

Triptychs, The Media Centre, Huddersfield 2016

The Listening Booth, G George, on-line 2015

Utopia, The Orangery, Clapham 2015

Be Our Guest, Oriel Davies, Newtown 2013

Dysfunctional Holiday Party, Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, New York 2012

Paper #3, Paper Gallery, Manchester 2011

The Burlington Fine Arts Club, The Burlington Fine Arts Club, Manchester 2011

We Are All In This Together, Bureau, Manchester 2009

Trade City, Contemporary Art Manchester, New Islington, Manchester 2008

Closer, Wolstenholme Projects, Liverpool 2008

Line Out: Leicester Short Film Festival, The Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester 2008

Practical Propagation, Vrits, Basel 2008

Spook Up I Can't Hear You, The Embassy, Edinburgh 2007

 

Curatorial projects

Frankophilia!, The Chapman Gallery, University of Salford 2011

Haiti Artists Art Auction, CUBE, Manchester 2009

 

Public Space

Dispersal: Interventions Part 1, Various sites, Birmingham, Lincoln, Manchester 2008

5th Edinburgh Annuale, The Embassy, Edinburgh 2007

Inbetween Spaces billboard, Look07 Photography Festival, Manchester

 

Publications

Hand to Mouth, The Poor Press, London 2012