Here you will find images and descriptions of both
past and continuing artworks and projects. They are arranged in reverse chronological order, and grouped together by exhibition, project or medium.
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"re-position: Sandy Smith" A studio project and solo exhibition within a 9500 square foot vacant shop unit in Glasgow's city centre. Daunting? No way! April 2009 |
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A solo exhibition at Arcan Mellor, an artist-run venture hosting pop-up exhibitions at locations around the UK. This exhibition was hosted in a small warehouse-type building off Clerkenwell Road, London. April 2009 |
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"Pure Love" A solo exhibition of new work at a new artist-run exhibition space in London, Space-In-Between. March 2009 |
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Four Solo exhibitions and an 11 week road trip across the USA. July - October 2008 |
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"Untitled (balancing act #2)" Made for The Garden Project at Catalyst Arts, Belfast. July 2008 |
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Solo exhibition (with Andrew Cattanach) at SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow A collaborative exhibition examining the concept of enlightenment, with knobs on. |
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"Please don't break my heart" Shown in Poststuckism is the new black at SWG3 Gallery, Glasgow August 2007 |
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Solo exhibition at Yellow Gallery, Glasgow A solo exhibition of new work and work not previously shown in Glasgow. |
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"All the time I was making this I was thinking of you" Shown at Studio Project 9 at Market Gallery, Glasgow Studio Project 9 was a four week residency at Market Gallery with a 9 day exhibition at the end. Over the four weeks I gradually made this flowering forest and centrepiece sculpture. |
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Shown at The Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition at The Royal Scottish Academy The first major project of 2007, this piece took three months of solid work to make, and was exhibited in a group show at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh. |
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Made in Denmark: July - December 2006 This category brings together work made during my recent residency in Copenhagen, Denmark. New: June 07 - I finally got around to uploading images of my November 06 solo show at Koh-I-Noor here. There are currently 2 exhibitions here. |
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'The world is becoming better' Solo exhibition at Glasgow Sculpture Studios Gallery This exhibition was the endpoint of a year-long residency at the Glasgow Sculpture Studios, which ran from July 2005 to July 2006. The work shown was all very experimental new, and in some cases unfinished, artworks made within the final month of the residency. There are 5 different works in this exhibition. |
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| Computer Installations
I started this body of work in January 2005 using a pile of broken and obsolete computer equipment I had salvaged from skips and offices. I set about making these work again, then used them as building blocks to create various architectural structures. The series ended in January 2006 with an exhibition at Edinburgh's Embassy Gallery. There are 6 different works within this group. Click the image for the (good) broadband version, or click here for the low-fi page. |
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Shown at 'Braveart' - Atlantis Gallery, London An artwork made specially for my first exhibition upon leaving art school, a farcical affair, sponsored and promoted by Standard Life. The exhibition, titled ‘BraveArt’, drew a selection of graduates from all four Scottish art schools, and whisked our work down to glamorous London for an exhibition in The Atlantis Gallery. A piss-take or acknowledgment and acceptance? Or does it really
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This artwork used the Internet search engine Google as a tool to recontextualise mass-media imagery in relation to it's textual counterpart. Working from a list of around 70 words, covering a wide range of references and pre-conceived notions, Google's image search feature was used to find the 20 most viewed images for each word, which were appropriated to create 60 second slide show-style videos. This project was initially presented as a video installation for an exhibition in September/October 2004 at the G2 Gallery, Chicago. |
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Blank Sign Project An early but ongoing project, I started the Blank Sign as a performance in February 2003. The premise was simple: holding a large blank placard, I stood on Glasgow's busiest street for a regular period of time (12-5) every day for a week. The artwork was a diary, which detailed what people had thought the sign was about. Since this initial performance, I have repeated the work, and taken it do different cities (and countries). The method of presentation has also varied, and encompasses book, sound, video and photography. |
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Ephemera This section will contain documentation of some of the smaller, or one-off works that I have made in the last year or so: book works, videos, performances and sculptures. It's not online yet, but its getting there... |
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