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Joan Smith

1987 MA Hons Degree in Fine Art University of Edinburgh
1989 Master of Fine Art PG Edinburgh College of Art 

Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) to May 2021
​Professional Member of the Society of Scottish Artists since 2000
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2011
Member of Visual Art Scotland
Art Director of Fusion (art meets science)
 
 
EXHIBITIONS AND RESEARCH
Sea Amulets installation at Hidden Door Festival 2023 The Complex, Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh
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RSA Annual exhibition 2023 RSA Edinburgh

Fragments: Paolozzi commissioned work made in response to Eduardo Paolozzi's 
1977 screenprint, ‘Nettleton from Calcium Night Light’.  Society of Scottish Artists 130 Year exhibition 2022-23, RSA Edinburgh

Co-authored chapter with Philp, J. The Fabric of the Human Body in  Teaching Research Innovation and Public Engagement (Springer) 2022

ANGUSalive selected group exhibition Meffan Gallery, Forfar 2022-23

North  selected group exhibition Visual Arts Scotland at Inverness Creative Academy 2022


Sea Amulets installation at Art Walk Porty: Salt,  Portobello, Edinburgh 2022​

REVERB online group show, Visual Art Scotland 2022 


Skull Colour Chart installation at the Society of Scottish Artists Annual Show, RSA Edinburgh  2021

Here and Now group show at the Tatha Gallery, Newport 2021

Contemporary Figure online group show, Society of Scottish Artists 2021

TRACES Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritage with the Arts - From Intervention to Co-production. 1st March 2016 –  28th February 2019. Grant award: Horizon 2020: H2020-Reflective-Society 2-2015 (GA 693857). http://www.traces.polimi.it   www.tracesproject.eu​

EXPOSURE: The ethics of making, sharing and displaying photographs of human remains Journal article, discussing the dilemmas and ethical considerations central to the TRACES research.  Publication: 2018, J.Smith L. Fibiger, T. Adler, J. Harries & A. Szöke, 2017,  Human Remains and Violence, vol. 4, no 1. 

Field Notes Exhibition at Surgeons Hall Museum, Edinburgh, with Susie Wilson. November 2018 – March 2019

Bringing to Light: The Dilemmas of Displaying Contentious Historical Material Performance lecture by Joan Smith, John Harries and Tal Adler at the CARMAH/CoHERE conference ‘Critical Heritages and Reflexive Europeanisation’ at the Berlin Wall Memorial, September 2017. 
http://www.traces.polimi.it/2017/07/13/critical-heritages-and-reflexive-europeanisation-traces-cohere-mid-term-seminar/
http://www.traces.polimi.it/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/TRACES-CoHERE_ConfProgramme_detailed.pdf
 
Dead Images exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art (June 29th – August 26th 2018) Artwork for the exhibition (a large scale photograph, video work) was created by Tal Adler and curated by the Dead Images creative-co production. The exhibition was accompanied by an educational programme and conference
http://dead-images.info/traces/; http://www.traces.polimi.it/portfolio-posts/portfolio-04/

The Colour of Skulls: Rethinking the Edinburgh Skull Collection presentation at the Dead Images international conference at Edinburgh College of Art (June 28th 2018) http://dead-images.info/conference-2/

Exposure - Reflections on the display of contentious collections presentation, with Dr Linda Fibiger at Skeletons, Stories and Social Bodies Conference, University of Southampton 2018 https://www.sssbconference.co.uk/

The Bone Library group exhibition at Summerhall Edinburgh, Edinburgh International Science Festival, 2014
 
In a Jiffy group exhibition at the Meffan Art Gallery, Forfar, 2014
 
The Bones Beneath the Face collaborative event and research project examining the display of human remains. Conceived of by Joan Smith and John Harries with Joost Fontein, based on an original suggestion by Jane Cheeseman, at the Association of Social Anthropologists Conference in Edinburgh 2014

Word of Mouth: talking about how we interpret skulls banner installation based on The Bones Beneath the Face, Surgeons Hall Museum 2014

Smugglerius: Art and Anatomy presentation at the Artefacts Conference, National Museum of Scotland 2012
 
Big Print Small Print group exhibition at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design, Wroclaw 2012
 
Cast Contemporaries group exhibition at Edinburgh College of Art 2012; catalogue ‘Cast Contemporaries’ ISBN 978-0-9565433-5-6
 
Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition 2011
 
The Analysis of Beauty: Art, Anatomy and the Cast presentation at the Cast Collection Conference Edinburgh College of Art 2011
 
Smugglerius Unveiled exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh December 2009 – March 2010
 
Smugglerius Unveiled Invited speaker at the Royal College of Surgeons 2010
 
Interviewed on Radio Scotland – Radio Café Wednesday 27 January 2010: ‘Joan Smith talks about Smugglerius Unveiled and James Holloway, Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, talks about the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the Dean Gallery’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00q94w5/The_Radio_Cafe_27_01_2010/  

Interviewed about Smugglerius Unveiled on Radio Scotland Drive Time 22 January 2010
Newspaper articles about Smugglerius Unveiled

Edinburgh Evening News (30 January 2010 and 21 January 2010) http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/features/Mystery-of-hanged-man39s-corpse.6029061.jp and http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Universitys-gallery-plans--exhibitions.6001195.jp

The Scotsman (1 February 2010) http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/-The-art-of-anatomy.6029953.jp

The Times (19.1.10) ‘From Tyburn Tree to Anatomy Tuition’ by Mike Wade
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The Herald (30.1.10) ‘Only Skin Deep’ by Jan Patience
 
Pushing myself harder and listening differently: the student experience of reflective practice Presentation at the CAUCE conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 2009
 
SSA Exhibition group exhibition at Eastwood Park Gallery, Glasgow 2009
 
What Lies Beneath: Exploring the affective presence and emotive materiality of human bones Presentation at the Bones Collective conference, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh 2008
 
Prints Tokyo International Print Exhibition, Tokyo and Sakimi Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan 2007
 
6th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, then touring the UK 2006/7
 
Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition New Leaf Editions and Dundarave Print Workshop Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 2006
 
Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition 2004, 2005, 2006
 
ArtTM group show Inverness, 2002
 
20x20 group show University of Kansas, USA 2001
 
IndustriaArt group show, Bank of Ireland Art Centre and Artstore Gallery, Dublin 1999
 
Connections  invited exhibitor, Royal Scottish Academy Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh 1999
 
ECA@Miro Eight printmakers at the Miro Institute, Palma, Majorca 1999
 
19th Mini Print International, Cadaques, Spain and international tour 1999

Created Space group show, Atrium Gallery, London 1999
 
Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition 1999
 
Nexus Gallery Edinburgh group show 1999
 
Drawing Comparisons touring exhibition and publication, with Colin Lawson, Aileen Keith and Steve Collingbourne. Publication: ‘Drawing Comparisons’ ISBN: 0-9531180-0-2 1997/8
 
Grave Goods group show, Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews and tour 1996/7
 
10 Years of WASPS group show at various venues in Edinburgh 1996   
            
Soutra solo show at The Christopher Boyd Gallery, Galashiels 1995
 
Castillo de Soutomaior Arcade Group exhibition, Pontevedra, Spain 1995
 
Joan Smith solo exhibition at the Pier Art Centre, Stromness, Orkney 1994
                       
Konstnarskoloni i Norsjo Sweden: group show following residency 1994
 
Elizabeth Adamson and Joan Smith Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh 1994
 
Common Origins group show Edinburgh International Science Festival at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh 1993
 
Works By Women The Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews, 1993

The Sea, The Sea exhibition and print publication, Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop 1993
 
Genetics solo exhibition at The Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1992
 
Spring group show at The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh and the Barbican Centre, London 1992  
     
Margins group show Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Slupsk, Poland 1992
 
Collective Gallery Touring Exhibition Vilnius, Kiev, St Petersburg 1992
 
Twenty-one Works By Women exhibition and print publication, Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop 1992
 
Trace Elements  solo exhibition at The Crawford Art Centre, St. Andrews 1991
 
Work group show Adam and Co, Edinburgh and the Scottish Gallery, London 1990

Three Scottish Painters group show at Stamford Art Centre 1990
 
Of Woman group show at The Gatehouse Gallery, Glasgow 1990

Inverclyde Biennial group show at The McLean Gallery, Greenock 1990
 
The School of ’89 group show at The Step Gallery, Edinburgh 1989
 
Soft Ground, Hard Ground group show at Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop 1989
 
The New Scottish Art group show at Edinburgh College of Art 1989
 
RESIDENCIES
1992                       Margins international artists’ residency in Sutherland, Scotland.
1994                       Konstnarskoloni i Norsjo, international artists’ residency in Norsjo, Sweden.

COLLECTIONS
My work is held in public and private collections including:
The Royal Scottish Academy; Heriot Watt University; Edinburgh College of Art
Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries; Edinburgh City Art Centre; Paintings in Hospitals (Scotland); Sakima Art Museum, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan; Norsjo civic collection, Sweden
 
AWARDS/PRIZES
2022     Anne Redpath Award for Painting. Visual Arts Scotland REVERB exhibition
2022     Detail Framing Studio Award. Visual Arts Scotland REVERB exhibition
2018     Random Acts Giving grant for publication related to Field Notes joint exhibition (with Susie Wilson) at Surgeons Hall Museum
2016-2019 Grant award: Horizon 2020: H2020-Reflective-Society 2-2015 (GA 693857) for group of researchers in TRACES: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts. http://www.traces.polimi.it
2013     EUSA Teaching Awards: runner up in the Best Personal Tutor category, University of Edinburgh
2013     Principal’s Teaching Award, University of Edinburgh, for collaborative project between staff and students in veterinary science and art, ‘Where art meets science’
2008     Dean’s Research Fund, University of Edinburgh, for collaborative and interdisciplinary project, ‘Smugglerius Unveiled’,  with Dr Jeanne Cannizzo
2004     Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop Prize, SSA Annual Exhibition
1989     George Jackson Hutchison Memorial Prize for Painting, Edinburgh College of Art.
1989     Edinburgh Printmakers’ Workshop Prize, Royal Scottish Academy
1988     Andrew Grant Major Award Edinburgh College of Art
1987     John Kinross Scholarship Royal Scottish Academy travelling scholarship to Florence   

 
 
 
 


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