MEGGA BUBBLE SPACE BURBS 2013
Vicky Smith is a multi disciplinary visual
artist based in Galway City. She was selected for the visual arts residency at
Galway Arts Centre in 2012 and began to make contributions to the Arts and
Cultural programme, RTE Arena, with her first radio review on the work of Sonia
Shiel at Galway Arts Centre. In 2011 she received her MA from NCAD's Faculty of
Fine Art, Art in the Contemporary World, combined pathway with honour's. Smith
was the chairperson and board member of 126 artist-run Gallery from 2010-2012.
Smith graduated from Goldsmiths College Drama department with an MA in Arts
Administration and Cultural Policy in 2004. In 2007 she received a diploma in
the History of European Painting from Trinity College, Dublin. She then lived
and worked in London and Dublin, teaching and developing her practice before
returning to Galway. Immediately after graduating with a Higher Diploma
for Art and Design in teaching, with distinction, from Crawford College of Art
and Design, Cork in 1999 and with a B.A in Fine Art, with distinction, in 1998,
she worked for the British Council for two years in a local community school
for the government of Botswana, Africa.
Smith constructs installations sculptures alongside appropriated moving images and photographs that suggest the happened upon snapshot, the captured moment within the recreated built tangible installation site inspired by literature and feminist writings that provide a theoretical and critical context to her practice. Smith explores philosophical themes and the practice of everyday living, the fragmented urban and rural site, domesticity, identity and feminism. She creates curiosities that examine how all these elements interact together resulting in a commentary on social behaviours, interests, actions, or lack of within our contemporary world. She recreates ready-made realities using new media, appropriated film footage, found objects and sculpture placed and displayed as an installation that challenges the space and the viewer. By developing a sense of journey through a trajectory of thought within the experience of the work, Smith attempts to unveil the effectiveness and power art can have on how we think as a society.
© copyright Vicky Smith 2014
Smith constructs installations sculptures alongside appropriated moving images and photographs that suggest the happened upon snapshot, the captured moment within the recreated built tangible installation site inspired by literature and feminist writings that provide a theoretical and critical context to her practice. Smith explores philosophical themes and the practice of everyday living, the fragmented urban and rural site, domesticity, identity and feminism. She creates curiosities that examine how all these elements interact together resulting in a commentary on social behaviours, interests, actions, or lack of within our contemporary world. She recreates ready-made realities using new media, appropriated film footage, found objects and sculpture placed and displayed as an installation that challenges the space and the viewer. By developing a sense of journey through a trajectory of thought within the experience of the work, Smith attempts to unveil the effectiveness and power art can have on how we think as a society.
© copyright Vicky Smith 2014
