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Morag

Smith

My artistic practice consists of researching, exploring and exhibiting work inspired by ideas around Landscape, People and Place. I work in installation and sculptural format with explorations in digital media and printmaking. Current focus continues an ongoing exploration of my relationship to the West Highlands and Islands. I am very attracted to the vibrant colours that I find in these landscapes, with key decisions coming back to shape and form, combined with the use of industrial materials such as perspex, concrete and resin. I am drawn to these through their sensual textures and visual stimuli. I like to explore the traces that are left in the land which contain my understanding of how I connect to a landscape. I was one of three artists commissioned by Discover Moray’s Great Places to respond to historical characters (2020), was part of an online group exhibition titled ‘Landscape of Place’ with An Tallas Solais (2020), exhibited in a group show as part of Circus Artspace Graduate Programme (2022), with Visual Art Scotland North in Inverness (2022) and Visual Art Scotland West in Glasgow (2023). I was commissioned as one of three artists to create work for an exhibition at the Suttie Art Space, GHAT in Aberdeen (2024) and exhibited a solo show at WASPS, The Briggait, Glasgow (2025). I am the recipient of grants from Creative Scotland (2023) and the Visual Arts and Crafts Makers Award (2021).

Disciplines: Sculpture

Location: Nairn

Materials: Assemblage, Casting, Found, Objects

My artistic practice consists of researching, exploring and exhibiting work inspired by ideas around Landscape, People and Place. I work in installation and sculptural format with explorations in digital media and printmaking. Current focus continues an ongoing exploration of my relationship to the West Highlands and Islands. I am very attracted to the vibrant colours that I find in these landscapes, with key decisions coming back to shape and form, combined with the use of industrial materials such as perspex, concrete and resin. I am drawn to these through their sensual textures and visual stimuli. I like to explore the traces that are left in the land which contain my understanding of how I connect to a landscape. I was one of three artists commissioned by Discover Moray’s Great Places to respond to historical characters (2020), was part of an online group exhibition titled ‘Landscape of Place’ with An Tallas Solais (2020), exhibited in a group show as part of Circus Artspace Graduate Programme (2022), with Visual Art Scotland North in Inverness (2022) and Visual Art Scotland West in Glasgow (2023). I was commissioned as one of three artists to create work for an exhibition at the Suttie Art Space, GHAT in Aberdeen (2024) and exhibited a solo show at WASPS, The Briggait, Glasgow (2025). I am the recipient of grants from Creative Scotland (2023) and the Visual Arts and Crafts Makers Award (2021).

Previous Experience

Solo Exhibitions: 2025 And in their wake happiness, WASPS, The Briggait, Glasgow Group Exhibitions: 2025 Inspired by the Cabrach, The Cabrach Trust, Inverharroch 2024 Bilberry Lane, Suttie Arts Space, GHAT, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 2023 Somewhere & Anywhere, The Steadings Gallery, Balmacara 2023 VAS West, The Briggait, Glasgow 2022 VAS North, Inverness Creative Academy 2022 Pop Gallery – Members Exhibition, Forres 2022 Cianalas, Circus Graduate Programme, Inverness Creative Academy 2020 Landscape of Place (online), An Tallas Solais, Ullapool 2019 LINKS, Nairn Book and Arts Festival 2019 Works in Progress, Links Studios, Nairn 2018 Moray School of Art Degree Show, Elgin 2018 Elements of Place, Orchard Road Studios, Forres 2017 Lonely Arts Club Members Exhibition, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery 2016 New Highland Contemporary 3, Nairn Book and Arts Festival 2016 WASPS Links Studio Exhibition & Open Studios, Nairn 2016 Beautiful World: An Artists Response to the Environment, Moray School of Art,

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