Vicky Smith makes work that is about the tangible site, mundane reality and the recreation of the ready-made reality. Her practice explores themes of the fragmented urban and rural site, domesticity, connections, memory, loss and identity. The use of material negotiates a colonial history with a personal history within an architectural metaphor and space. The essence of the material holds a history, a sense of absence, loss, trace and curiosity which resonates in the photographs, made objects, installations, drawings and paintings. Within this search various feelings, words and thoughts arise within the search for roots, the personal research for the artist on the family relationship between England and Ireland and how to make this connection.

Smith is an artist, writer, curator and teacher. She  has recently completed the MA programme, Art in the Contemporary World,NCAD,Dublin and was the chairperson and artist curator on the board of 126 artist led space, Galway from 2010-2012. She has taught and exhibited extensively in Ireland, England, Africa, America and Europe.Smith was recently awarded the individual visual arts grant by Galway City Council in 2011. 
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