Bio

London based artist, Jenny Smith (born 1987, Reading, UK) finished the post graduate programme at The Royal Drawing School in 2012 after completing her BA in Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Jenny’s work is underpinned by a combination of extensive drawing in the landscape and from the imagination and is predominantly made on paper. She uses mixed media and collage to harness the rhythmical structures of any given environment and its inhabitants. She is interested in mark making and the potential it offers to deconstruct reality and describe movement through space. Cut out elements help weave narratives and places together to give the work a dreamlike, theatrical quality. 

Selected Exhibitions and Awards

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Hafod Estate Residency - Wales - 2021

Life on Venus - The Tub, Hackney - 2020 group show

 

Dead Good - HI10 Gallery, Skien, Norway - 2019 solo show

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The Church Painting Show - All Hallows Church, London - 2019 group show

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The Deal - Maison de Peuple, Brussels - 2019 group show

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Summer Exhibition - The Concept Space - 2018 group show

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Turps Cloud - Turps Gallery, London - 2018 group show

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Spilt Milk - Disturb the Neighbours Gallery, New York - 2018 solo show

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Cache - Angus Hughes Gallery, London - 2018 group show

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Turps Painters 2015-2016 - Art Bermondsey Project Space, London - 2017 group show

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FBA Futures - The Federation of British Artists, The Mall Galleries, London - 2017

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The Turps Studio Programme Show - Turps Gallery, London - 2016 group show

 

No Monkey Business – Chinese Open, Q Park Show, London - 2016 group show

 

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize - The Mall Galleries, London - 2016

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The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award, RBA - Winner - 2015

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The ING Discerning Eye- Exhibitor - 2015

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Dumfries House Residency, Ayrshire - 2015

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The Lynn Painter-Stainers - The Mall Galleries - 2014

 

The Arts Club Charitable Trust Award, RBA - Winner - 2014

 

The Annual Royal Society of British Artists Show - The Mall Galleries - 2014

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Dumfries House Residency, Ayrshire - 2014

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Shortlisted for The Rome Scholarship - The Royal Society of British Artists - 2014

 

The Sir Denis Mahon Award - 2014 – Shortlisted

 

Pignano Residency, Tuscany -2013 

 

Dumfries House Residency, Ayrshire - 2013 

 

The Windsor & Newton Prize – Winner - 2011

 

The Tea Building Show- Bethnal Green Road, London - 2011

 

The Drawing Year Show - Shoreditch, London - 2011

 

Shortlisted for The Rome Scholarship -  The Royal Society of British Artists - 2009

 

Ronald Searle Award for Creativity - Cambridge School of Art - Winner - 2008

 

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