I am a text based artist

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Name: Gerald Smith

CURRENT EDUCATIONAL STATUS

2011 – Studying for an MPhil at Edinburgh College of Art (part-time basis)

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

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

2006
The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh

2000 – 2001
Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop

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

AWARDS

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

Conference and seminar papers

Oral presentations

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

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

EXHIBITIONS

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

Sihlhallenstrasse Neunzehn, 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, Te Pooka, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh

In Between, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh

Feathers And All (an exhibition with Grazyna Dobrzelecka), 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. Kunstbunker Tumulka, 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 Of The Following Group Shows: thetextisthetext (2011) and Re;Write (2000). Co-curator, alongside Nathan Thompson, of Textured (1999).

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