Jd Smith

JD Smith was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He studied drawing and painting in Cardiff before attending the Newport School of Art and Design. Here he studied film and migrated his knowledge of fine art technique and video making to study Interactive Arts, at the University of Wales. Predominantly working in public art and land art with an ecological bias, he has returned to the idea of artist as 'maker' and revels in being back in touch with the more traditional art practices of painting and sculpture, whilst still maintaining a strong body of work in film, photography and digital art processes.

MA Design for the Environment (Chelsea School of Art & design) UAL, London
BA(Hons) Interactive Art, UWCN
BA(Hons) Film & Video, Newport Film School, Wales
Dip. Foundation Studies, Newport School of Art & Design

'Les Noces' (2018), documented performance (giclée print), Exposición Colectiva, ‘Tierra de Hambre. Una llamada a la conciencia’, ES Arte Gallery, Marbella, Spain, July 2018
'Wave' (2017) - video installation and artists talk, Liquidscapes, 3-day International Conference, June 20 to 22 2018 • Dartington Hall, UK.
Aesthetica Art Prize 2017 - "I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason (2017)" UK.
Selected Works – Gibraltar International Art Fair, 2017
Selected Works – Voyages of the Sea, London Photographic Festival, Cutty Sark, London Sept. 2016
Selected Works​ - Yr Lle Celf, National Eisteddfod of Wales, Llanelli, Wales, August 2014
Textures #1,2,3 - ​VideoEx, Experimental Film & Video, Zurich, Switzerland, May/June 2014
Trees (2014) - ​Le Bazar Roulant - Moviemiento in France
Dungeness - ​Green Unplugged Festival, June 2013
Cataclysm Installation (2012)​ - Exploding Cinema, St. James Church, London, Dec. 2012
Cataclysm (2012) - ​Besides the Screen Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, Dec. 2012
Selected Works - ​What Art Does?/Was Macht Kunst?, Langenhagen, Hanover, DE Feb - May 2012
Ghosts - ​Exploding Cinema, Half Moon Gallery, London, March 2009
Spine - ​Group Show, New Cross Art Priz...