Pauline Smith works in a variety of different media including painting,
sound, music, performance, film and installation.
Her practice is rooted in sensory experience and explores colour and light,
space of place, space and time, form and formlessness.
Alongside her art practice Pauline Smith has worked in a wide range of jobs and settings
that include: Workshop leader at Tate Liverpool; Artist/Educator at Tate Modern supervising
summer education programmes and devising educational resources;
Art and Music community workshops/projects in youth clubs,
day centres, adult mental health and rehabilitation;
Teaching secondary school art & design; and, as a Musician (performing, touring, recording) and teaching piano and brass instruments privately and in a Saturday music school.
She currently works: in primary school learning support delivering 1:1 art interventions to children with a range of additional needs; as a Drawing and Talking practitioner – a more specific therapeutic intervention to support children’s mental health and emotional well-being;
and, as a Massage Therapist.
1967 – Born in Manchester, UK.
Education
1988-91 – BA (Hons) 1st Class, Fine Art, Sir John Moores University, Liverpool.
1992-93 – Foundation Course in Commercial Music, Sandown School of Performing Arts, Liverpool.
2002-03 – Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art, Cyprus College of Art.
2005-06 – PGCE Art and Design, Institute of Education, University of London.
2015-16 – City & Guilds Diploma in Massage, Morley College, London.
2016-17 – Diploma in Sports Massage, Morley College, London.
Selected Exhibitions & Performances
2021 – Brixton Blog and Bugle Art Show.
2020 – Brixton Blog and Bugle Art Show.
2019 – British Painting II, Bermondsey Project Space.
2019 – Alive In The Universe – film project, Venice Biennale, Aldeburgh Art Tower, Bermondsey Project Space.
2018 – Fading Fear – soundtrack to film by Federica Dalla Vecchia & Sandra Mladjanovic, viewings in Bosnia, Cyprus, London.
2017 – The Labyrinth Walk – performance, Warrior Studios.
2017 – The Ladies of Lemba – performance, Cyprus.
2016 – What is done cannot be undone, Warrior Studios Artists Collective, OVADA Gallery, Oxford.
2016 – Autumn Lamentation – performance, Warrior Studios Artists Collective, Loughborough Junction (Merz) Farm, London.
2016 – 3 Mermaids, a Siren, and a Director – performance, St. Georges beach, Cyprus.
2014 – Loughborough Creatives, Warrior Studios Artists Collective, 198 Gallery.
2014 – Warrior Press Publication Launches – Issues 3-5, Warrior Studios.
2014 – Dulwich Open, Portico Gallery, London.
2013 – Brewster’s House, Warrior Studios Artists Collective, Testbed1, Battersea, London.
2013 – Curious Books, Studio 73, Brixton Village.
2013 – Seeking Slow, Testbed, Battersea, London.
2013 – The Curious Exchange, Dulwich Leisure centre, London.
2013 – Our Autonomous Nature ll, Testbed1, Battersea, London.
2013 – Warrior Press Publication Launches – Issues 0-2, Warrior Studios.
2012 – Studio 73, Brixton Village (solo show).
2012 – Brixton Village Art Trail, Studio 73, Warrior Studios group exhibition.
2012 – On the Brow of the Hill, Dulwich Lodge Whippersnappers Community Arts Centre.
2011 – Lambeth Open, Warrior Studios, Loughborough Junction. London.
2011 – Treescapes and Seascapes, Blue Mountain Café, East Dulwich, London.
2011 – Art Style, Belleberry Deli, Beckenham, Kent.
2010 – Home Art Exhibition, Beckenham, Kent.
2009 – The Feral Four (performance) Splitting the atom, The Stags Head, Dalston
2009 – To not do to not be (photo-etchings), Open house exhibition.
2009 – Brixton Library, London.
2005 – The Staircase Miracles, soundtrack album with 15mm Films, video installation, Serpentine Gallery, London.
2005 – Chronic Epoch, Clippetyclop (performance art band with Aaron Williamson), Beaconsfield Gallery, London.
2005 – Competency Model, Clippetyclop, Goldsmiths College, London.
2005 – Exhibition Road Music Day Clippetyclop, Serpentine Gallery, London.
2005 – Electric Renaissance Festival of Handel’s music, Clippetyclop, Halle, Germany.
2005 – Made05 – printmaking, Morley College Gallery, London.
2004 – We Can Work It Out, Three Colts Gallery, London.
2004 – Brian Catlins’ Christmas Cabaret Melancholique, Clippetyclop, London.
2004 – Cloptimism (1st album), Colchester Arts Centre.
2003 – Brixton Open 2003, Bettie Morton Gallery, London.
2003 – Morfi Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus.
2003 – Kyklos Gallery, Pafos, Cyprus (two person show).
2002 – Cyprus College of Art, Lemba, Cyprus.
1999 – South London Open, Camberwell.
1998 – The Untouchables – Drawings and Prints, The Plaza, London. (solo show).
1997 – Alexandra Gallery, London.
1992 – Painting Today, Bonhams, London.
1991 – Alternative Seventeen, Merkmal Gallery, Liverpool.
1991 – Art Express, Mall Galleries, London.
1991 – Fresh Art Exhibition, Islington Business Design Centre, London.
1991 – Threshers Exhibition/Competition, Liverpool. (First Prize Winner)
1990 – Threshers Exhibition/Competition, Liverpool. (First Prize Winner)
1990 – Gallery Delta, Zimbabwe.
1989 – Liverpool Airport.
1989-1990 – Liverpool Philharmonic.
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