Artist currently living and working in London​

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https://vimeo.com/larasmithson

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larasmithson@hotmail.co.uk

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education

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BA at The Slade School of FIne Art 2011 - 2015

Cooper Union School of Fine Art, New York, 2013 (Exchange Programme)

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awards / scholarships

 

Erasmus Training and travel to The Orta Botanica, Padova, Italy, 2020/21

Claire Winston Award 2015

Dolbey Travel Scholarship 2015
The Grocers' Company Queens Golden Jubilee Scholarship 2011 - 2015

Official Selection WomenCineMakers Biennial Edition 2018

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commissions

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STOP PLAY RECORD in collaboration with ICA & Channel 4




exhibitions / projects

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Solo 

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She Spoke Rain, The Why Not Gallery, Tbilisi Georgia, 2018 

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Upcoming / Current - Group

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Plicnik Space Initiative, Launches October 15th 2020

https://plicnik.space

Visions in the Nunnery, OPENING December 2020 

https://bowarts.org/nunnery-gallery/visions-in-the-nunnery

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Group

 

Re-Enchanted Matter, A.P.T, September 2020 

https://www.hotdesque.xyz/reenchantedmatter

https://www.aptstudios.org/news/96qd8q9b3kofz1vuup311da7ntd81j

Exquisite CORPUS 2020, twitch.tv/exquisitecorpos

OUTPOST Open Film 2019, selected by Stuart Whipps, Norwich Cinema City 2019

Fivehundredthousand Film Screening, Deptford Cinema 2019

PRINTED, Central Saint Martins, London 2019

Undercurrents, The Artesian Well, London 2018

ArtWorks Open 2018, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London 2018

Visions in the Nunnery | Nunnery Gallery @ Bow Arts, London 2018

The Grand Tour Inauguration , fivehundredthousandgallery @ Artlicks Weekend , London 2018 

Four Limbs, London 2018

Perform & Pixel, fivehundredthousandgallery, London 2018

One need not be a chamber, Exposed Arts Projects, London 2018

http://www.exposedartsprojects.com/news

PLAYBACK touring UK, 2017-2018

https://stopplayrecord.ica.art

GROUPshow, New York 2017

WE WERE THERE, London 2015

Slade BA Degree Show, London 2015

Doleful Shades, London 2015

PAST PRESENT FUTURE KULT, London 2015

Second Person Looking Out, UCL Museum, London 2014 

Hit and Run, New York 2013

Art of the Book, New York 2013

The Kilburn Grand Tour, with Camden Arts Centre and Kingsgate Workshops Trust 2012

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films / artist director

 

Our voices are not our own, 2020

It slips as a ribbon to smooth fingers, 2018

Strange Loops, 2018

Act 1 She Spoke Rain, 2017

Act 2 Spitting is a Language, 2017

Act 3 There were prawns in the cave, 2018

Spinning in one breath, 2018

Ilkla Mooar, 2017

Still Life With Gloves, 2016

Blinkers, 2015

Corner Vision, 2015

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