C.V.

Name: Gerald Smith

E-mail: greymirths@gmail.com

Website: http://www.iamatextbasedartist.com/

 

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2010 – 2017 Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Graduated 2017 with PhD (Art)

2008 - 2010 Edinburgh College of Art, graduated with MFA (Intermedia Art)

1995 – 1998 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of Dundee, graduated
with B.A. (Hons), 2.1., Fine Art Printmaking

1994 – 1995 Leeds College of Art and Design (BTEC Diploma, Foundation; Art and Design).

1993 – 1994 Stevenson College, Edinburgh. Portfolio Course

1985 – 1991 Open University, graduated 1992 with BA (Open) in Art History and Cultural Studies

 

MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANISATIONS

1999 - Elected to professional membership of Society of Scottish Artists (previously held associate membership 1998-1999)


OFFICES HELD

2018 – Trustee of Interview Room 11

2017 –2020  Council Member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)


AWARDS

2018 Creative Edinburgh Award at SSA Annual Show for Genome K. Genomics: a scientific approach to Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’, 2017 (print)

2000 R.B. Munro Sculpture Prize at SSA Annual Show

 

EXHIBITIONS

2019 Open (Society of Scottish Artists/VAS Annual Show ’18), The RSA, Edinburgh / Games For May, Interview Room 11, Skylight, Gallery, Edinburgh / Palimpsest,An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis

2018 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ’18, The RSA, Edinburgh / Bless This Machine, Interview Room 11, The Building, Edinburgh

2015 Text Art, Gallery of North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China / Writing Digital: Mix 03,Commons Building, Newton Park Campus, Bath Spa University / Gerry Smith: Reverting To Type, Interview Room 11, Forest Centre+, Edinburgh

2014 Another Athens, Interview Room 11, Forest Centre+, Edinburgh / Postcard Showcase, ECA Postgraduate Research Festival 2014, ECA, Edinburgh / Moving Words: An Exploration of Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014, Illuminations, University of Ireland, Maynooth / In A Jiffy (SSA Professional Members Show), The Meffan Gallery, Forfar / Snehta Noir, Online exhibition: http://www.snehtaresidency.org/

2013 Northern Venetians (collaborative electronic literature project), Online Exhibition: http://www.iamatextbasedartist.com/northernvenetians /Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ’13, The RSA, Edinburgh

2012 Kompas, ECA, University of Edinburgh / Thaw, sound installations: Blackwell’s Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh (Blackwells Bookshop, Old Town Bookshop, Edinburgh Books, Main Point Books) / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ’12, The RSA, Edinburgh /Salon Neu, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2011 thetextisthetext, WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh / About Painting,Sihlquai 55, Zurich / I Am Not A Poet, Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh / Context, The Arcade Building, San Pedro, Los Angeles / DOCument, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘11, The RSA, Edinburgh / Salon Vert, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2010 Redrawing,Society of Scottish Artists, Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow / Assemble, WOT, Edinburgh Central Library, Edinburgh / Edinburgh College of Art, Degree Show (MFA), ECA, Edinburgh / SihlhallenstrasseNeunzehn, Sihlhallenstrasse 19, Zurich / #, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh / Storylines (an exhibition with Daniella Justiniano and Thomas Tripet), WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘10, The RSA, Edinburgh / Salon, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2009 Art School Lift, Installation at ECA, Edinburgh  / Society of Scottish Artists, Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow / Forms Of Narrative, First gallery exhibition of 7 Short Sails, Birnam Institute, Dunkeld/ 7 Short Sails (Phase 6), Pat Law’s online collaborative arts project / Artoscopic 3, St Leonards Tunnel (Innocents Railway), Edinburgh / Side-By-Side, ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘09, the Vision Building, Dundee / Maquette, TePooka, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh / In Between, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh / Feathers And All (an exhibition with GrazynaDobrzelecka), Tea Tree Teashop, Edinburgh / Essential Reading, Installation at ECA Library, Edinburgh / Come On In From The Cold, Greenlaw Festival, Duns, Berwickshire /Blueprint, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh

2008 Landscape Intervention (time-based land-art installation, December, 2008), Cove Park, Cove, Argyll and Bute / Exhibition and Art Auction (Barnardo’s Scotland) Joseph Pearce’s Bar, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists, Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow  / 0’00’’ A Performative Act Performance at ECA Project Space, ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘08, The RSA, Edinburgh /From Book to Book, Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds.

2007 Only Words; an international exhibition of text-based artists. KunstbunkerTumulka, Munich, Germany / Gold Members, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘07, The RSA, Edinburgh / Textual Healing; an Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Text Related Art, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2005 9th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh

2001 Edinburgh Printmakers’ Annual Members’ Show, Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh

2000 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘00, The RSA, Edinburgh / Re: Write (Textured II), WASP’s Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.  

1999 Textured; an exhibition of text-based art, Waterstones Bookshop, Dundee. 

1998 Delineation, The Bellevue Gallery, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘98, The RSA, Edinburgh / Compass New Generation Show, The Compass Gallery, Glasgow / DJCAD Annual Exhibition, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee / RSA Student Exhibition, The RSA, Edinburgh / P.M.T. (Printmakers’ show), Frances Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

1997 Text, Squares and Mopeds (an exhibition with Sam Clark), Isabel’s Café, Edinburgh

1996 Micro-Macro, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee  

1995 Raft, Installation and Performance, The Student Union (Swimming Pool), University of Dundee / Foundation Show, Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds

1994 Stepping Stones, Stepping Stones Gallery, Edinburgh

 

CURATOR 

Curator Of The Following Group Shows: Re: Write (2000)

Co-curator of Games For May (2019) alongside MirjaKoponen

Co-curator of Another Athens (2014) alongside MirjaKoponen and nick-emelville

Co-curator of thetextisthetext (2011) alongside nick-emelville

Co-curator of Textured (1999) alongside Nathan Thompson

 

BOOKS

Essential Reading (signed edition of 50 copies), 2004

Away Wae Thi Burdies (signed edition of 50 copies), 2007

Permanent Culture (signed edition of 50 copies), 2007

Selected Words (1998 – 2008), 2009

Collected Fiction and Punctuation Poems (signed edition of 40 copies), 2010

 

E- PUBLICATIONS

Thaw: limited edition e-book (50 copies published to coincide with Thaw sound installations, 2012), Stone of Tabby Press

Noise (computer animation), included in The ELMCIP European Anthology of Electronic Literature

 

ONLINE MATERIAL

www.iamatextbasedartist.com

SSA Website: https://www.s-s-a.org/member/?u=gerrysmith

Spatial Collaborations: http://studiojammingwritingresidency.dundee.ac.uk/texts/

Northern Venetians: http://www.iamatextbasedartist.com/northernvenetians/

Rauschen: https://www.box.com/shared/2v9c1o0d9dytxuvkmrqh

Noise: https://www.box.com/shared/yhbs8euwzg7sloor06ig

Thaw: http://thawaudiencefeedback.wordpress.com

Textualities (online magazine): http://textualities.net/admin/gerry-smith-2/
The following works have been included in the poetry section: Einstein/Kafka, Some Lines (3 extracts), Brunelleschi’s Singularity, Transparent Sea, An Alexanderine (Homage to Trocchi), Flying Ducks, and Two Poems in Response to François Le Lionnais

I Am Not A Poet:   http://issuu.com/verysmallkitchen/docs/i_am_not_a_poet_assembling

Reductive Forms (POPP conference, CCA, Glasgow) http://par-scotland.wikispaces.com/Videos

See also: the links listed at the above sites

 

CONFERENCE and SEMINAR PAPERS

Oral presentations

The Recollective: regressed technology and the work of memory,Writing Digital: Mix 03, Bath Spa University, 2015

Northern Venetians: stories of a practised place, Mix: Text on Screens, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, 2013

Two Experimental Writings P{e/a}r{i/a}meter: CIRCLE research symposium, Inspace, University of Edinburgh, 2013

Reductive Forms, POPP (Processes and Outcomes, Paths and Products), PaR, Glasgow University, CCA, Glasgow - (http://par-scotland.wikispaces.com/Videos)

Question Your Tea Spoons: digital works in endotic research, Mix: Transmedia Writing and Digital Creativity, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, 2012

Reductive Forms: ConVersify Conference: poetry politics and form, University of Edinburgh, 2011

Thaw: The Artwork as site-In-Endotics, Unravelling Narratives, ACE/ECA Postgraduate student conference 2010

Punctuation Poetry: Kurt Schwitters Autumn School 2010, Littoral, Cylinders Estate, Elterwater, Cumbria, 2010

 

READINGS AND PERFORMANCES:

Spatial Collaborations, Here, Right Now (Studio Jamming), The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh, 2014

Spatial Collaborations, Studio Jamming Group Critical Writing Residency, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, 2014

Declaration (as part of SpartAn group),Studio Jamming Group Critical Writing Residency, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, 2014

 

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Obliterated Damien Hirst Original No.1, Duncan of Jordanstone, University of Dundee
Seen With, The Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich

I am a text-based artist Selected Words 1998-2008, Artists’ Book Collection,
Edinburgh College of Art; and the collection of the Visual Research Unit, DCA, Dundee