Clare Smith

Clare Smith was born in Penang, Malaysia and was educated in England. She studied Oriental studies in Cambridge before spending 15 years in Luxembourg, returning to England in 1999 to study art as a mature student in Canterbury Kent and realise a long-held dream of making a life in the arts. Her mixed English/Chinese heritage informs her perspective on issues of identity and categorisation. Smith’s nomadic childhood and early adulthood have meant a somewhat ambivalent relationship to place, reinforced by the sense of ambiguity that comes from her mixed identity. She works with drawing, print media, collage and moving image to investigate this ambivalence, with references to craft, the importance of labour and the handmade.

2011: MA Fine Art, Central St Martins, London
2004: BA Fine Art, Kent Institute of Art and Design
1982: BA Hons Oriental Studies, Kings College, Cambridge

2018: Reflections on Landscape: Against the tide (curated by Joseph Black and Louise Webb, River Garage studios, Dover)
2018: Recollective (curated by Karen Pamplin Browne, Brew Folkestone)
2017: BRINK (curated by Karen Pamplin Browne, Brew Folkestone)
2016: Outside the Lines (curated by Karen Pamplin Browne, Brew Folkestone)

Issue #008, Vol. 3 of CreativPaper Magazine, pp. 32-37, March 2018
Issue #4 of CreativPaper Magazine, May 2017 , pp.122-135