Emma Smith is a London based visual artist who uses painting, drawing, text, site specific installation and instigation to explore notions of human perception and appropriation, the boundaries of expression and communication and the act of record and reproduction.

In a recent commission for Essex Record Office Smith staged a one week journey around the county of Essex to explore the idea of connection to space, re-traced paths and coincidence as common place.

Through conversations with people purposefully met on route, Smith attempted to uncover coincidental connections. This work resulted in the construction of an annotated map and museum installation exhibited in 9 museums and galleries around the county in November 2007.

Smith also works collaboratively, most recently with Landscape Architect Sadie May Stowell on a site specific spatial instigation project 'SubRural' since October 2006. The research element of this project can be viewed at: www.subrural.co.uk. She also has a successful career working as an artist for Gallery Education Programmes.

Qualifications:
BA (Hons) Fine Art and Art History, Goldsmiths, University of London

Image: Untitled