Lydia Smith

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...

(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

2024 -

The Future is Female Group show, chelsea barracks

BLUEPRINTS OF FORM Solo exhibition, St Botolph’s Building

What are you looking at? Group show, Maison Pan, Trafalgar square

The Values We Share , Solo show and unveiling of monumental sculptures, Hertfordshire, The Royal Masonic School for Girls



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 & Desig...