Lydia Smith

1995

United Kingdom

Lydia Smith, born in 1995, is a multi-disciplined Artist working with historical and contemporary processes to realise her works.

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 NFT’s. Working with the Ancient Material, Clay, She enters a flow state, allowing her concepts to express themselves subconsciously; once complete, using her unique method, her work metamorphoses into the digital realm. These pixilated forms inform the evolution of her process.

Smith was trained in academic sculpture at the University of the Arts London (2014-2017). She also continued training at private ateliers in Greece, Spain and France. Smith’s career regularly involves commissioned work within the British Film industry and collaborations with luxury brands. She has also represented Great Britain in international Snow and Ice carving championships in Switzerland and China. Exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery (2022), Had her first solo show in Soho central London (2022) and co-produced the duo show ‘Soft Spaces’ in New Bond Street, Mayfair (2023).

Artist Statement

My work illustrates a dialogue between line and form. Creating geometry inside a physical and digital ecosystem. From my hands to software to my mind, and then back to my hands; a three-way dialogue starts to unfold. My 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, my mind is imagining our future as beings, both our spiritual and Avatar selves. I believe 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.

Selected Events

Selected Exhibitions:

2023 CHRISTIE’S The Augusta Galleries – CHRISTIE’S Lates 50 years of Pablo Picasso – 14th September
2023 JOHN REARDON: (AFTER) WHISTLEJACKET – 1st June – 1st July – MMX Gallery
2023 Soft Spaces – New Bond street – 6th -12th March – Duo show with Evie Mae Jacobs
2023 KOPPEL X Group show – 16th -25th March – 48 Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus
2022 The NFT Gallery – Dover Street Mayfair – 15th Dec – 21st Jan
2022 Creative Mason – 14 Bedford Square – Fitzrovia – 12th -30th Nov – The Artist workspace Gallery & Vie d’Artiste
2022 Saatchi Gallery – STart – 13th -16th October – Frieze Week
2022 Future Antiquity – Mayfair – in collaboration with E P O K woman & Hub culture – Frieze Week
2022 Sculpture & Design intersects the Digital World – Mayfair – in collaboration with E P O K woman & WAAW London
2022 Feminine & Form – Solo Show – in collaboration with E P O K woman – Mayfair London – 8th March – 30th April
2022 PAUSE – Solo Show – Thirteen Soho Square London – Soho London – 1st Feb – 10th Feb
2021 London Art Biennale – Chelsea Town Hall – Chelsea London
2021 Tebbs Contemporary Art gallery – Surreal – Virtual Group show
2020 Creativity during a pandemic – Wycombe Art Centre – High Wycombe Buckinghamshire
2020 Longwick Art Fair – Chiltern MS Centre – Wendover Buckinghamshire
2019 Time and Place – Wycombe Arts Centre
2019 Summer Salon – Candid Arts Trust – Islington London
2019 Bucks Art Weeks – Buckinghamshire Open Studios
2018 Daft Arts and Music – Wycombe Art Centre

Press:

2023 Lydia Smith: the artist who merges the past and the future through NFTs
2023 BETWEEN TWO DIMENSIONS: A CHAT WITH THE ARTIST LYDIA SMITH
2023 Battling Sexism in the Art World – Medium
2023 Celebrating Women Artists, International Women’s Day Art Exhibitions in London – ArtPlugged
2023 The Art of Web3 – Art & Aperitif – episode with Lydia Smith
2023 Sebs Art list – Soft Spaces
2023 Mayfair Times – March Issue – Soft Power
2023 Audio Galleries – Interview with Lydia Smith
2023 Crypto Cast Podcast – Interview with Lydia Smith
2023 Artists of the East End – Interview with Lydia Smith
2022 Mayfair Musings – 10 QS WITH LYDIA SMITH
2022 Blow out Magazine – Feminism & Sculpture
2022 Art Plugged – A Conversation Between The Digital and The Physical Worlds Through Sculpture
2022 Feminine & Form – E P O K Woman – Mayfair
2022 An Effort Art – PAUSE by Lydia Smith
2022 Sebs Art List – An Effort Presents Lydia Smith
2021 Open Mind Acadamy – We need Art in this Digital Age
2020 Art reveal – Artist Interview (page 104)
2020 UAL’s Graduate Incubation Programme x Lydia Smith
2020 Craft Courses
2019 The business Show – Marlow FM radio
2019 GlotimeTV -A Design for Life
2019 The Guardian -From ‘Game of Thrones’ to loving noses

Awards:

2019 GloTIME.tv – The Silver Screen Ball – The Silvia Anderson Award for Creativity
2019 Best creativity – China, Harbin International Snow and Ice Championships
2019 4th Place – China, Harbin International Snow and Ice Championships
2019 3rd Place- Grindelwald World Snow Sculpture Festival
2018 2nd Place- Grindelwald World Snow Sculpture Festival
2017 2nd Place- Grindelwald World Snow Sculpture Festival

Residencies:

2022 An Effort – London
2021 Studio Vouzeron – France
2021 Banditto – Tuscany
2021 Eudald Studios – Spain
2021 Studio Vouzeron – France
2019 Eudald Studios – Spain

Education:

2021 Mapstone and Vouzeron – ‘Sculpting the figure’ with Grzegorz Gwiazda
2020 Geode Art Space – ‘ Sculpting and painting the figure’ with Eudald De Juana Gorriz
2019 Athens Sculpture Atelier – ‘Drawing in Space’ with Robert Bodem
2018 Mapstone Studio – ‘The alchemy of sculpture’ with Robert Bodem
2017 University of the Arts London – BA Honors Degree
2013 University of the Arts London – Foundation Art diploma

Film and Tv:

Tomb Raider, 2018
The Kid who would be King
Game of Thrones, Season 8
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle
Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker
Avenue 5
Cinderella, 2021
Eternals
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
Lockwood and co.
Snow White, 2024
The Gorge
Gladiator 2
House of the Dragon – Season two

Public Speaking:

2022 – Frieze week Breaking down data on the representation of female Artist’s – WAAW London x The Twenty Two
Private Panel Film, Metaverse, NFT & Art – Mayfair Meet Up
Private Panel blockchain, NFT’s, metaverse – Canary Wharf