Education/training
2018-2024
Loughborough University, doctoral research
2006-08 Institute
of Education, London (P.G.Dip. Art and Design in Education)
2002-04 Central
Saint Martins’ School of Art, London (M.A. Fine Art)
1985-1997 Curwen Studio, London and Cambridge,
collaborative studio lithographer.
1981-83 University
of London (B.A.Hons. Art/Drama)
Solo
exhibitions
2013
Pastoral, West
Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield, UK
Hodegetria:
work in progress, Wirksworth Festival, UK
2009
And weave
but nets ... Printroom, LCB Depot, Leicester, UK
Selected
group exhibitions
2024
Okanagan
Print Triennial, Kelowna Art Gallery, British Columbia
Drawing
Articulations: a radical drawing symposium, Leeds Beckett University, UK
2023
Collecting
Nature, Eagle Gallery, London
2022
Collaboration
in Practice: British Lithography 1800-2022, touring, UK
Third
International Biennial of Lithography, Serbia
2022
8th
International Lithography Exhibition, Sweden.
Ecologies
of Drawing: In Situ, Loughborough University, UK
2021
Drawn to
Time, Loughborough University, UK.
2020
Triennial
of Graphic Arts, Bosnia Hercegovina
2019
Out of the
Woods, Nick Mobbs and Serena Smith, Leicester Print Workshop, UK
2018
National
Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, UK
Lithographietage
International, Munich
International
Printmaking Biennial, Portugal
2017
A Study in
Stone, Tarpey Gallery, UK
Ruskin
Prize, Sheffield, UK
3rd Global
Print, Douro, Portugal
Sketch
Open, Rabley Drawing Centre and touring, UK
2016
Litho-Kielce, Poland
2015
Xiaoxiang
Exhibition, China
2014
Akram Khan:
One side to the Other, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
The Walking
Encyclopaedia, Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
Print
International, Mansers, Shrewsbury; Oriel Myrdnn, Carmarthen, UK
2013
Practical
Dialogue, Leicester and touring, UK.
Fresh
Prints, UAL Showroom, London, UK.
The London
Group Centenary Open, UK.
2012
BIMPE V11, Vancouver
and touring, Canada
BITE:
Artists Making Prints, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2011
Nottingham
Castle Open, UK
Small Print, New Walk
Museum, Leicester and touring UK
2010
Surface, Clare
Hall, Cambridge, UK
2009
Passion to
Print, City Gallery, Leicester and touring UK
2007
Winter Show, North
House Gallery, UK.
2006
Multiple
Choice, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Corby, UK
New Hall
College, Cambridge, UK
2005
Art East, Bury
St. Edmunds Art Gallery, UK
2004
Land and
Light, Wingfield Arts, Suffolk, UK
1985
Eight by
Eight, Curwen Gallery, UK
Public
collections
Aberystwyth University, Wales
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, Germany
British Library, London
British Museum, London
China Printmaking Museum, Shenzhen
Nottingham University, Ningbo, China
University of California, Berkley, USA
Awards
2023
For Arts
Sake prize, RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2022
Third
International Bienniale of Lithography, Serbia - First Prize.
Intaglio
Printmaker prize, RE Original Prints, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2020
Santander
Mobility Award, Loughborough Doctoral College, UK
2016
P2P Prize,
Leicester Print Workshop, UK
Guanlan
Original Printmaking Base, China: residency prize, Shenzen
2015
Studio
Eleven Prize, Inprint, Hull, UK
2014
Oppenheim-John
Downes Memorial Trust Award
2012
Wirksworth
Festival Prize, Derby City Open, UK
2011
St Barnabus
Prize - BITE: Artists Making Prints, London
John E
Wright Prize, Nottingham Castle Open, UK
2010
Spike
Island Prize, Small Print International, touring UK
2009
Leicester
Print Workshop Prize, UK
Presentations
2024
BABE, Bristol
Artists Book Event, UWE, UK
International
Lithography Colloquium, Offenbach, Germany
2023
Visiting
speaker, Coventry University, UK
2022
Festival of
Ideas: Transitions, IAS Loughborough University, UK
8th
International Lithographic Symposium, Tidaholm, Sweden
IMPACT 12
International Printmaking Conference, UWE, UK
2020
Material
Encounters Summer Colloquium: Uncertain Knowledges, Birmingham
University, UK
2018
Cambridge
Printmakers Biennale, UK - keynote speaker
2015
Print
Symposium, Regional Print Centre, Wrexham, UK - keynote speaker
Publications
Smith, S.
(2020) On Stone >> Inscription:
the Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History. Issue 1.
Baker, S.
et al. (2013) Conversation Starter. Printmaking Today. Vol.
22. No. 3.
Smith, S.
(2011) Redundant Technology? Small Print: Big Impression, exh.
cat., Leicester Print Workshop.
Smith, S.
and Smithson, S. (2011) The Apprentice. Printmaking Today. Vol.20.
No.1.
Smith, S.
(2010) Ten Years Young. Printmaking Today. Vol.19. No.2.
Castle, S.
(1995) The Artist and Colour Lithography. Aspects of the Royal Academy:
An Exhibition of the Art and Craft of Lithography. Sheeran Lock Fine Art
Consultants.
Press
Bolick, R.
(2023) Books on Books Collection - Serena Smith, Ekphrasis.
Croft, P.
(2022) Collaboration in Practice: British Lithography 1800-2022.
Aberystwyth: School of Art Press, pp 140-1.
Stanfield,
F., McGeown, L. (2019) The Printmaking Ideas
book. London: Ilex Press, pp 30,31,64,65.
Bradley, L.
(ed.) (2019) 'Out of the Woods: Serena Smith and Nick Mobbs' in Printmaking
Today. Vol. 28.
Jinks, K.
Meet: Serena Smith. UK Handmade. ISSUU 2015.
Hawley, H.
(2014) Contemporary Visual Arts Network, 'Meet the Artist'.
Jones, S.
(2010) Stanley Jones and the Curwen Story. London: Herbert Press,
pp 133-136.
Powers, A.
(2008) Art and Print: The Curwen Story. London: Tate
Publishing, pp 152-6.
