Mandy Smith
Past Exhibition Highlights
A selection of previously exhibited artworks
Northam Cubes August 2021
Participatory soft software hand printed cubes. Zest Arts Collective first project 'Signs of the Times' funded by the Arts Council.
Genes at Chaiya Art Awards, London Oxo Gallery. 2018
Using old jeans collected from friends and family, Smith modelled this figure on her own body, while marking it with wounds experienced by her mother through episodes of illness and grief. The act of sewing connecting Smith to the memory of her mother whilst it also reflects the concerns Smith and her mother had felt at the time over the possibilities of passing down faulty cancerous genes to Smith’s children.
Mother Overload, 2017
'Uncontained' Container Show
Performance sculpture 'vomiting' soft toys and using sound elements taken from dissected toys.
The excesses of childhood.
Tanoptic, 2018. Degree show installation, Below Bar Studios, Southampton.
The inspiration for Tanoptic came from my concern with my teenage children’s use of social media and general digital dependence. Posting selfies that may be shared, copied and potentially downloaded by a stranger.
Lunarpause, 2019. Banana Split, Ripe, Old Northam Road, Southampton.
a series of sculptures drawn from her experiences as a mother, combining her concern for her adolescent children and a troubled state of mental ill health. At first glance these sculptures can be viewed as humorous and bordering on theatrical but which also contain a darker, shadowy ‘otherness’.
Fruiting 2020
Fruiting is a fun, site specific installation at the Hidden Wardrobe, Old Northam. Inspired by a mushroom found within, it explores the wonderful world of fungi, puffballs and mycelium.