Isobel Smith

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• MA Degree

  School

  School of Humanities

  Programme

  MA Sculpture, 2017

  Specialism

  performance

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• flickering between belief and disbelief

  dwelling on the threshold

  beyond survival

  
  

  a desire to return

  fear of going for good

  hesitating on the edge

  
  

  paralysed

  
  

  I make art spells - between the eyes, between the legs, between worlds - in the sliding flux between 'familiar' and 'other'. So burn me. 

  Finding our strictly rational patriarchal system alienating and wholly 'unhomely', I reclaim the 'Uncanny' as 'Home-at-Last', a safe place for the re-membering of wilder, stranger, dismembered parts. 

  A place where I can properly be.

• Degrees

• BA (Hons), Graphic Design / Illustration, Central Saint Martins School of Art, 1988; Postgraduate Diploma, Fine Art / Sculpture, University of Brighton, 2001

• Experience

• Performer/Director, Biting the Dust, Suspense Puppetry Festival, London 2016; Artist/Co-curator, Sister’s of Hera. Associazione Dello Scompiglio, Italy, 2014; Director of Puppetry, Gala (Dali): A Puppet Opera, Tete a Tete Opera with Puppet Centre and Trinity Laban, London, 2013; Performer/Director, Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter, Commissioned by Brighton Festival, Nightingale and Marlborough Theatre, Brighton, and Barbican's Shoreditch Festival, London, 2012; Artist in residence, Nuffield Theatre with Puppet Centre, Southampton, 2012 – 2013

• Exhibitions

• Revolve Festival, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2017; Five Minutes of Your Time, Testbed 1 (Doodle Bar), London, 2017; Live to Camera, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2017; Becoming, Dyson Gallery, London, Curated by Subject Matter and Sedition, 2017; Liberté D'Action, L'Amour, Paris, 2016; Live in the Old Town, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland, 2016; Live Import/Live Export, Liverpool Biannual, The High Park Street Reservoir, Liverpool, 2016; Being-Doing, Asylum, Caroline’s Garden Chapel, London, 2016; Domestic Violins, Courtyard Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2016; Revolve Festival, Uppsala Central Station, Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden, 2017

• Awards

• Shortlisted for InnovationRCA Our Place in the World Challenge, 2017