Terry Smith

Terry Smith studied at Goldsmiths School of Art and Birmingham Polytechnic.  He received the Henry Moore Fellowship (Byam Shaw School of Art) in 1998, the Sargent Fellowship in Rome in 1998/9, was research fellow at Field Institute, Hombroich Museum, Dusseldorf in 2002. In 2008 he received The Paul Hamlyn Artist Award. Smith’s highly regarded eclectic practice explores architectural interventions, live performance, film and drawing. In 1994 Smith started breaking into derelict buildings to create a series wall cuts, secret and inaccessible to the public. An unofficial intervention, Capital, in The British Museum cutting into Gallery 49 walls underlines Smith’s iconoclastic approach. This all led to an invitation in 1996 to make works in the derelict Bankside Power Station as part of the Tate Modern development. Tate’s arts professional’s tours of the old building were the only opportunity to see the works, and typically Smith not only abandoned the wall works, but also his works on paper made at the same time. The most recent interventions include a large scale street work that echoed the British Museum piece, called Capital Revisited. 2013  made in four sites over a period of five weeks in the Lower East Side, just south of the Bowery. In 2014 a performance work Foundlings at Ca' Pesaro Museo Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, Venice, combined video, recorded sound with live dance and music. The most recent was a video work blocking passing at the Folkestone museum as part of The triennial fringe 2017