Artist Statement:
My work is predominantly text-based, and ranges in scale from business cards to billboards. I have used a variety of techniques including machine-routed MDF board, lipstick on mirrors, and letterpress printing. I also write proposals that function as completed works. My ideas are as likely to have occurred to me on the way to the studio as they are to have been jotted into a notepad ten years ago. The essence of my practice is to distill each idea into its most effective and efficient form. I arrived at language as a medium as an undergraduate, during which time I sought to create work without any sale or resale value. I found that an element of text was intrinsic to everything I made or did, eventually settling on language itself as my preferred mode of presentation, despite its having often proved itself as misleading as it is efficient, and not always by design.
Artist CV:
Trevor H. Smith
1977, Newcastle upon Tyne
Based in Bath, UK
Education:
Bath School of Art & Design 2009-2012 (BA Hons Fine Art)
Exhibitions:
2016
Your Privacy Has Been Deleted, tumblr.com
A Dream is Real as Long as it Lasts (collab. Will Kendrick), Glasgow International, Glasgow
On the Edge of a Continent, Glasgow International, Glasgow
2015
Connected, tumblr.com
2014
Beacons, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Nostalgia Project, Bristol Biennial, Bristol
Portal, Bristol Biennial, Bristol
A Wave Looks the Same From Above and Below, Lacuna Crux, Bristol
Bending Light, BV Studios, Bristol
Relay, Ovada, Oxford
2013
Past Perfect, The Looking Glass, Bristol
I Used to be an Adventurer Like You, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
Love and Other Utopias, Site Festival, Stroud
Trawler, Motorcade/FlashParade, Bristol
Some of These Over There, 44AD, Bath
Depth Charge, 44AD, Bath
Proxy, Trove, Birmingham
We Will Only Know Ourselves Through the Eyes of Each Other, Abingdon
Holidays, The Jam Factory, Oxford
2012
Out of Office, Abingdon
Meanwhile part II, John Hansard Gallery Offsite Exhibition, Southampton
Platform 2012, Bristol Diving School, Bristol
Site Unseen, Truman Brewery, London
Paper, Bristol
BSAD Degree Show, Bath Spa University, Bath
Browser, Bristol Biennial, Bristol
Server, Bristol Biennial, Bristol
Grey Area, Fringe Arts Festival, Bath
Number Sixteen, Cardiff
Dis Locate, Milsom Place, Bath
2011
Volte Face, St. James’ Wine Vaults, Bath
Library Show, BSAD, Bath
2010
About Time, Walcot Chapel, Bath
Showcase, BSAD, Bath
2009
City Projects, Bath
Selected Artists, The Works Artspace, Bath
Curatorial Project
2014 – present Home-Platform
Collaborative Practice
2012 – present MadeScapes^
Awards / Residencies
2015
Writer in Residence, Art in Bearpit
2012
Platform Professional Development Winner
John Purcell Printmakers Award Winner
Bath School of Art & Design, Blogger Bursary Winner
a-n Artists Information Company, Annual Blogger Awards Runner-Up
Teaching:
2016
Bath School of Art & Design, Visiting Artist Lecture
Bath School of Art & Design, Putting Text Into Context (text-based art workshop)
2015
Bath School of Art & Design, Visiting Artist Lecture
Bath School of Art & Design, Putting Text Into Context (text-based art workshop)
Bath School of Art & Design, Degree Show Catalogue Consultant