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Jo

Fleming Smith

I am a multidisciplinary artist with an MA Contemporary Art Practice from Edinburgh College of Art and a BA Painting and Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. I have taken part in international residencies and exhibitions in solo and group shows, including creating immersive installations for the award winning Hidden Door Festival in Edinburgh and a solo show at Summer Hall. I work primarily in painting and installation utilising light, space and form to explore experiences of interconnectedness and community. My work follows the fields of minimal and gestural abstraction and is influenced by the light and space movement. I work with spontaneity and chance, exploring colour and form through layering, staining, and repetitive mark making. The result is a material process based practice contemplating place, time and experience. My most recent work explores expanded painting and develops intuitively in response to the environment, navigating painting as movement, in dialogue with material, space and time. This new body of work considers themes of connection, absence, presence, transformation and potential.

Disciplines: Painting

Location: Derbyshire

Materials: Acrylic, Oil, Pen & Ink
I am a multidisciplinary artist with an MA Contemporary Art Practice from Edinburgh College of Art and a BA Painting and Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University. I have taken part in international residencies and exhibitions in solo and group shows, including creating immersive installations for the award winning Hidden Door Festival in Edinburgh and a solo show at Summer Hall. I work primarily in painting and installation utilising light, space and form to explore experiences of interconnectedness and community. My work follows the fields of minimal and gestural abstraction and is influenced by the light and space movement. I work with spontaneity and chance, exploring colour and form through layering, staining, and repetitive mark making. The result is a material process based practice contemplating place, time and experience. My most recent work explores expanded painting and develops intuitively in response to the environment, navigating painting as movement, in dialogue with material, space and time. This new body of work considers themes of connection, absence, presence, transformation and potential.

Previous Experience

17 -25 April 2026, The Third Round Proper, Bloc, Sheffield, UK, 28 March – 27 May 2026, Maclaurin Art Gallery, VAS Annual Show, Ayr, UK, 4 – 14 Feb, Bloc Projects Open Members Show, Bloc, Sheffield, UK, 31 Jan – 4 May 2026 Common Ground, The Living Landscape, Kirkcudbright Galleries, UK 12 June – 5 August 2025 PADA 52, Residency and Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal, 21-22 June 2025, Split3, Candid Arts Trust, London, 18 March – 27 March 2025, The Elements, Fronteer, Sheffield, UK, 22 – 23 Nov 2024, Hidden Door, The Paper Factory, Edinburgh, UK, 17 – 25 August 2024, Now & Then, Visual Arts Scotland, Dalkeith Palace, Scotland, UK 31 May – 4 June 2023 Hidden Door Arts Festival, Edinburgh, UK 28 March – 2 April 2023 Mud for You, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK July–Sept 2022 Infinite Horizon Solo Show, Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK

Collections

PADA International Residency Group Show

Horizon Colourfields

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