Kim Anna Smith

Smith's multi-disciplinary work documents the human experience, a master at exploring our very essence she succinctly shows all of our complexities and contradictions. How we think and how we feel, how we interact in relationships, the joy and pleasure in life as well as the pain and the heartache.

Smith’s artistic creativity stems from an early age. Her Swedish and English-Romani heritage gives her a rich background of eclectic influences. She worked in music for many years touring the globe, her art reflects this diversity of interests and various sources of inspiration. She works in charcoal, acrylic, neon and gold leaf mostly. Her raw line drawings of figures captured in personal moments with little extracts of original text stems from an admiration of Tracey Emin’s intimate work.  The mood and feeling is perhaps drawn from her affection for Marlene Dumas. For Kim, both of these great artists possess an honesty and directness, which has had a profound effect on her practice and inspired a unique romantic poetry to her own work.

Her sold out series of lips, covered in gold leaf are sensual and seductive, acknowledging the fact that often what is communicated is rarely actually spoken. Kim paints hearts on a regular basis, ...

18 months study in a fine art studio.

Kim Smith is also an official advocate for the David Lynch Foundation of Consciousness based Education and World Peace.

EXHIBITIONS
“Our time”, room with neon and sound, AQUA, Art Basel week, Miami, U.S.A (2018)
Striking Colours, Artsy, (Nov 18)
Top British Contemporary Artists Artsy x Artig (Oct 18) Barely There Saatchi Art (June 2018)
David Lynch Foundation Auction - Artsy June (2018) David Lynch Foundation Group Show, Golborne Gallery, London, June (2018)
The Art of Consent, part of HeforShe campaign, UN, London, March (2018)
Help Refugees Auction, Paddle8, UK, December (2017) Soho Farmhouse, Oxfordshire, Private view, (2017) Dreamers Solo Show, Golborne Gallery London, November (2016)
Art Below Group show, Old Truman Brewery, London, October (2016)
Gallery Different, Hearts Beat as One group show, London, October (2016)
‘Somewhere Else’, joint exhibition with Mark Melvin & Kim Smith, Space Station, Bermondsey Street, London, October (2016).
Transport For London, Art Below Posters London Underground During Frieze, October (2016)
Lights of Soho presents Open Group Show, September (2016)
Lawrence Alkin Gallery Summer Mix Group Show, London, July (2016)
W-London with Group show, London, May (2016)