MEGGA BUBBLE SPACE BURBS 2013
Vicky Smith is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Engage Arts studios, Galway. She recently took part in the Rua Red selected winter open, Dublin. In 2012 she was selected artist in resident by Galway Arts Centre and began to make contributions to the Arts and Cultural programme, RTE Arena, with her first radio review on the work of Sonia Shiel. Other exhibitions include Too Many Dinner Parties(2013), #00800(2012), Latency, Linenhall Arts centre(2012), Spectrum Of Activity, Triskel Arts Centre(2011). She graduated with an MA from NCAD’s Faculty of Visual Culture, Art in the Contemporary World in 2011. Previous to this she was the chairperson and board member of 126 Artist-led Gallery(2010-2012). Upcoming shows in 2014 include solo project PS2, Belfast, solo exhibition Kilkenny Arts Festival and a solo exhibition, Linenhall Arts Centre Mayo(2015).
Smith constructs installations and 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 and 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
