Name: Gerald Smith
E-mail: greymirths@gmail.com
Website: http://www.iamatextbasedartist.com/
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
2010 – 2017 Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Graduated 2017 with PhD (Art)
2008 - 2010 Edinburgh College of Art, graduated with MFA (Intermedia Art)
1995 – 1998 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of
Dundee, graduated
with B.A. (Hons), 2.1., Fine Art
Printmaking
1994 – 1995 Leeds College of Art and Design (BTEC Diploma, Foundation; Art and Design).
1993 – 1994 Stevenson College, Edinburgh. Portfolio Course
1985 – 1991 Open University, graduated 1992 with BA (Open) in Art History and Cultural Studies
MEMBERSHIP OF ORGANISATIONS
1999 - Elected to professional membership of Society of Scottish Artists (previously held associate membership 1998-1999)
OFFICES HELD
2018 – Trustee of Interview Room 11
2017 –2020 Council Member of the Society of Scottish Artists (SSA)
AWARDS
2018 Creative Edinburgh Award at SSA Annual Show for Genome K. Genomics: a scientific approach to Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’, 2017 (print)
2000 R.B. Munro Sculpture Prize at SSA Annual Show
EXHIBITIONS
2019 Open (Society of Scottish Artists/VAS Annual Show ’18), The RSA, Edinburgh / Games For May, Interview Room 11, Skylight, Gallery, Edinburgh / Palimpsest,An Lanntair, Isle of Lewis
2018 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ’18, The RSA, Edinburgh / Bless This Machine, Interview Room 11, The Building, Edinburgh
2015 Text Art, Gallery of North China University of Science and Technology, Tangshan, China / Writing Digital: Mix 03,Commons Building, Newton Park Campus, Bath Spa University / Gerry Smith: Reverting To Type, Interview Room 11, Forest Centre+, Edinburgh
2014 Another Athens, Interview Room 11, Forest Centre+, Edinburgh / Postcard Showcase, ECA Postgraduate Research Festival 2014, ECA, Edinburgh / Moving Words: An Exploration of Kinetic Poetry and Prose, 1984-2014, Illuminations, University of Ireland, Maynooth / In A Jiffy (SSA Professional Members Show), The Meffan Gallery, Forfar / Snehta Noir, Online exhibition: http://www.snehtaresidency.org/
2013 Northern Venetians (collaborative electronic literature project), Online Exhibition: http://www.iamatextbasedartist.com/northernvenetians /Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ’13, The RSA, Edinburgh
2012 Kompas, ECA, University of Edinburgh / Thaw, sound installations: Blackwell’s Bookshop, South Bridge, Edinburgh (Blackwells Bookshop, Old Town Bookshop, Edinburgh Books, Main Point Books) / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ’12, The RSA, Edinburgh /Salon Neu, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2011 thetextisthetext, WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh / About Painting,Sihlquai 55, Zurich / I Am Not A Poet, Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh / Context, The Arcade Building, San Pedro, Los Angeles / DOCument, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘11, The RSA, Edinburgh / Salon Vert, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 Redrawing,Society of Scottish Artists, Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow / Assemble, WOT, Edinburgh Central Library, Edinburgh / Edinburgh College of Art, Degree Show (MFA), ECA, Edinburgh / SihlhallenstrasseNeunzehn, Sihlhallenstrasse 19, Zurich / #, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh / Storylines (an exhibition with Daniella Justiniano and Thomas Tripet), WASPS Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘10, The RSA, Edinburgh / Salon, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2009 Art School Lift, Installation at ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists, Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow / Forms Of Narrative, First gallery exhibition of 7 Short Sails, Birnam Institute, Dunkeld/ 7 Short Sails (Phase 6), Pat Law’s online collaborative arts project / Artoscopic 3, St Leonards Tunnel (Innocents Railway), Edinburgh / Side-By-Side, ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘09, the Vision Building, Dundee / Maquette, TePooka, Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh / In Between, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh / Feathers And All (an exhibition with GrazynaDobrzelecka), Tea Tree Teashop, Edinburgh / Essential Reading, Installation at ECA Library, Edinburgh / Come On In From The Cold, Greenlaw Festival, Duns, Berwickshire /Blueprint, The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh
2008 Landscape Intervention (time-based land-art installation, December, 2008), Cove Park, Cove, Argyll and Bute / Exhibition and Art Auction (Barnardo’s Scotland) Joseph Pearce’s Bar, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists, Professional Members Exhibition, Eastwood Park Theatre, Glasgow / 0’00’’ A Performative Act Performance at ECA Project Space, ECA, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘08, The RSA, Edinburgh /From Book to Book, Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds.
2007 Only Words; an international exhibition of text-based artists. KunstbunkerTumulka, Munich, Germany / Gold Members, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘07, The RSA, Edinburgh / Textual Healing; an Exhibition of Artists’ Books and Text Related Art, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 9th Edinburgh Independent Radical Book Fair, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh
2001 Edinburgh Printmakers’ Annual Members’ Show, Printmakers Workshop, Edinburgh
2000 Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘00, The RSA, Edinburgh / Re: Write (Textured II), WASP’s Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh.
1999 Textured; an exhibition of text-based art, Waterstones Bookshop, Dundee.
1998 Delineation, The Bellevue Gallery, Edinburgh / Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show ‘98, The RSA, Edinburgh / Compass New Generation Show, The Compass Gallery, Glasgow / DJCAD Annual Exhibition, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee / RSA Student Exhibition, The RSA, Edinburgh / P.M.T. (Printmakers’ show), Frances Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1997 Text, Squares and Mopeds (an exhibition with Sam Clark), Isabel’s Café, Edinburgh
1996 Micro-Macro, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee
1995 Raft, Installation and Performance, The Student Union (Swimming Pool), University of Dundee / Foundation Show, Leeds College of Art and Design, Leeds
1994 Stepping Stones, Stepping Stones Gallery, Edinburgh
CURATOR
Curator Of The Following Group Shows: Re: Write (2000)
Co-curator of Games For May (2019) alongside MirjaKoponen
Co-curator of Another Athens (2014) alongside MirjaKoponen and nick-emelville
Co-curator of thetextisthetext (2011) alongside nick-emelville
Co-curator of Textured (1999) alongside Nathan Thompson
BOOKS
Essential Reading (signed edition of 50 copies), 2004
Away Wae Thi Burdies (signed edition of 50 copies), 2007
Permanent Culture (signed edition of 50 copies), 2007
Selected Words (1998 – 2008), 2009
Collected Fiction and Punctuation Poems (signed edition of 40 copies), 2010
E- PUBLICATIONS
Thaw: limited edition e-book (50 copies published to coincide with Thaw sound installations, 2012), Stone of Tabby Press
Noise (computer animation), included in The ELMCIP European Anthology of Electronic Literature
ONLINE MATERIAL
SSA Website: https://www.s-s-a.org/member/?u=gerrysmith
Spatial Collaborations: http://studiojammingwritingresidency.dundee.ac.uk/texts/
Northern Venetians: http://www.iamatextbasedartist.com/northernvenetians/
Rauschen: https://www.box.com/shared/2v9c1o0d9dytxuvkmrqh
Noise: https://www.box.com/shared/yhbs8euwzg7sloor06ig
Thaw: http://thawaudiencefeedback.wordpress.com
Textualities (online magazine): http://textualities.net/admin/gerry-smith-2/
The following works have been included in the poetry section: Einstein/Kafka, Some Lines (3 extracts), Brunelleschi’s Singularity, Transparent Sea, An Alexanderine (Homage to Trocchi), Flying Ducks, and Two Poems in Response to François Le Lionnais
I Am Not A Poet: http://issuu.com/verysmallkitchen/docs/i_am_not_a_poet_assembling
Reductive Forms (POPP conference, CCA, Glasgow) http://par-scotland.wikispaces.com/Videos
See also: the links listed at the above sites
CONFERENCE and SEMINAR PAPERS
Oral presentations
The Recollective: regressed technology and the work of memory,Writing Digital: Mix 03, Bath Spa University, 2015
Northern Venetians: stories of a practised place, Mix: Text on Screens, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, 2013
Two Experimental Writings P{e/a}r{i/a}meter: CIRCLE research symposium, Inspace, University of Edinburgh, 2013
Reductive Forms, POPP (Processes and Outcomes, Paths and Products), PaR, Glasgow University, CCA, Glasgow - (http://par-scotland.wikispaces.com/Videos)
Question Your Tea Spoons: digital works in endotic research, Mix: Transmedia Writing and Digital Creativity, Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, 2012
Reductive Forms: ConVersify Conference: poetry politics and form, University of Edinburgh, 2011
Thaw: The Artwork as site-In-Endotics, Unravelling Narratives, ACE/ECA Postgraduate student conference 2010
Punctuation Poetry: Kurt Schwitters Autumn School 2010, Littoral, Cylinders Estate, Elterwater, Cumbria, 2010
READINGS AND PERFORMANCES:
Spatial Collaborations, Here, Right Now (Studio Jamming), The Sculpture Court, ECA, Edinburgh, 2014
Spatial Collaborations, Studio Jamming Group Critical Writing Residency, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, 2014
Declaration (as part of SpartAn group),Studio Jamming Group Critical Writing Residency, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, 2014
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Obliterated Damien Hirst Original No.1, Duncan of Jordanstone, University of Dundee
Seen With, The Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich
I am a text-based artist Selected Words 1998-2008, Artists’ Book Collection,
Edinburgh College of Art; and the collection of the Visual Research Unit, DCA, Dundee