Biography
Education • Solo exhibitions • Selected group exhibitions • Bibliography • Collections • Press releases • Essays
Education
| 1997-1998 | MA Fine Art | Chelsea College of Art and Design, London |
| 1993-1996 | BA (Hons) Fine Art | Central Saint Martin’s College of Art & Design, London |
Solo exhibitions
| 2021 | All Aflame .pdf | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2019 | Volcano Lovers .pdf | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2017 | Haunts .pdf | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Several Small Fires .pdf | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2013 | Emma Bennett: Thief of Time .pdf | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff |
| 2012 | And, Afterwards .pdf | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2010 | Death & Co. .pdf | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2002 | Emma Bennett: New Paintings | Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
Selected group exhibitions
| 2021 | Thing Worlds | Spot Korin, Kyoto |
| 2020 | Words that transform, vibrate and glow: 13 paintings inspired by the lyrics of Nick Cave .pdf |
CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2019 | Goth Shop | The Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2019 | 10 Years | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2018 | Intervention. Room for young art. Collection Reydan Weiss. ‘Without a label, I feel freer ...’ |
Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
| 2018 | Context: Gallery Artists & Collaborators | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2017 | Doing Identity: Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss | Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
| 2017 | Nature Morte: Contemporary Still Life | Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
| 2017 | Interiority | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2016 | I Prefer Life: Reydan Weiss Collection | Weserburg Museum, Bremen |
| 2016 | Flora | Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth |
| 2016 | Black Paintings | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt |
| 2016 | Flora | Oriel Plas Glyn y Weddw, Pwllheli, Wales |
| 2015 | Black Paintings | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2015 | Flora | Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales |
| 2015 | Flora | Oriel Davies, Newtown, Wales |
| 2015 | New Painting from London | Galerie Heike Strelow, Frankfurt |
| 2015 | Still life – Ambiguous Practices | School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth |
| 2015 | Collection of Small Paintings | The Contemporary London, London |
| 2014 | 100 Painters of Tomorrow | Beers Contemporary, London |
| 2014 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2014 | All Coherence Gone? | BayArt, Cardiff |
| 2014 | Fleursdumal | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2014 | Fleursdumal | Lion and Lamb Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2013 | Emma Bennett & Caro Suerkemper: Glazed | BRAUBACHfive, Frankfurt |
| 2012 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2012 | The Serpent’s Tail | Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 2012 | Polemically Small | Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham |
| 2012 | Kalliphilia | Vegas Gallery, London |
| 2012 | East Wing X | Courtauld Institute, London |
| 2011 | Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4’s New Sensations and THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | B1, Victoria House, London |
| 2011 | Charlie Sierra Lima | CHARLIE SMITH LONDON, London |
| 2011 | Polemically Small | Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre, Klaipėda |
| 2011 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small | Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles |
| 2010 | New British Painting | Gallery Kalhama & Piippo Contemporary, Helsinki |
| 2009 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2009 | New London School | Galerie Schuster, Berlin |
| 2008 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2007 | THE FUTURE CAN WAIT | Old Truman Brewery, London |
| 2007 | Equinox | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2006 | Nocturnal | Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London |
| 2006 | John Moores 24 / Liverpool Biennale | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2005 | Between Dog & Wolf | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Forever Beautiful | Clapham Art Gallery, London |
| 2004 | Emma Bennett, Marion Coutts, Anna Lucas | Front, London |
| 2003 | Gate | Dartmoor, Devon |
| 2001 | A Month in the Garden | The Museum of Garden History, London |
| 2001 | Bittersweet | Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
| 2001 | Unchaperoned | Aroma Project Space, Berlin |
| 2001 | Deptford X | Deptford X, London |
| 1999 | Blink | Princelet Street, London |
Bibliography
| 2017 | The Book of Black. Faye Dowling | Laurence King |
| 2015 | Flora | Published by Oriel Davies & Arts Council of Wales |
| 2015 | Still life – Ambiguous Practices. Frances Woodley | A School of Art Publication, Aberystwyth University, 2015 |
| 2014 | 100 Painters of Tomorrow. Kurt Beers | Thames & Hudson |
| 2014 | Still Life: all coherence gone? Frances Woodley: | A School of Art Publication, Aberystwyth University, 2014 |
| 2013 | Nature Morte: Contemporary artists reinvigorate the Still-Life tradition. Michael Petry | Thames & Hudson |
| 2013 | 100 London Artists Vol. 1, Zavier Ellis & Edward Lucie-Smith | iArtBook |
Collections
K & K Kollektion, Monaco • Preiskel & Co, London • Julian & Stephanie Grose, Adelaide • David Roberts, London • Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Munich • Private collections in: Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom & United States
Essays
Volcano Lovers, by Frances Woodley .pdf
How to paint in four dimensions, by Paul Carey-Kent .pdf
Tending the flames of reverie, by Frances Woodley .pdf