Bridget Smith
'My work has more recently become situated in this ‘expanded field’ of photography, working with the medium to extend it spatially and temporally. I want my work to play with the form of photography and open it out, to push against it becoming too fixed.'
Bridget Smith (b. 1966, Essex) works with photography, video and site-specific installations to explore the relationship between the real and the imagined within social and architectural spaces. Using the properties of light, colour, pattern and scale, she creates a space where the ‘unreal’ emerges as an aesthetic experience. Her artwork addresses our conflicted desire to feel both connected and transported: within society, the landscape and the wider universe. Smith’s approach to photography interweaves multiple positions: analogue and digital, still and moving, and the photograph as both sculpture and object.
The architecture of the cinema and its component elements have remained a recurring theme throughout Smith’s career. Blueprint for a Sea (rising) (2015) ‘re-imagines an exterior landscape through interior space’, while using one of the earliest forms of photographic practice, the cyanotype, on a unique scale. Such explorations of photography itself, as medium, process and materiality, have more recently manifested in experiments with the depiction of light and the representation of infinite space. Objects in Space is a series of ambrotype and tintype images, predominantly of crystals and glass objects. Smith is interested in the deep black of the glass surface and waxed polished tin and its correspondence to both the inactivated mobile phone screen, and the blackness of outer space. ‘The resulting works’, comments the artist, ‘explore the poetic alchemy of matter as well as the historical significance of image consumption across time.’
-
Bridget Smith
Artist Talk at The Photographers' Gallery 2 Feb 2023Thursday 2 February 2023, 6.30pm On the occassion of her new exhibition Field Recordings, Bridget Smith was joined in conversation by Ben Burbridge for a...Read more -
Words and Images
Online Viewing Room 25 Jan 202225 January–27 February 2022 To mark Shilpa Gupta’s links to language and poetry, exemplified by her large-scale sound installation For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot...Read more
-
Moving Image Programme
Alliances 22 Jul - 15 Sep 2024 Online Exhibition -
Moving Image Programme
Portrait 10 Jul - 20 Aug 2023 Online ExhibitionOver the course of the exhibition and continuing into August, we are delighted to present an online programme of moving image works by gallery artists. Each work will be available...Read more -
Bridget Smith
Field Recordings 27 Jan - 11 Mar 2023 Golden SquareWorking in photography, video and installation, Bridget Smith’s practice interrogates the relationships we have with our environment, exploring the spaces in which we seek connection and transportation. For her new...Read more -
Summer Breeze 6 Jul - 11 Aug 2017 Soho Square, Golden SquareThe works at Golden Square reveal how the notion of body is imbued with multiple meanings, including recurring bodies of artwork, or bodies of human subjects themselves. An analyst, an...Read more
-
Bridget Smith
The Eye Needs A Horizon 22 Jan - 3 Mar 2016 Golden SquareUsing film, photography and found objects Smith considers the various elements of the auditorium, creating a sculptural installation made up of individual works which form a deconstructed cinema space. Blueprint...Read more -
Silver
17 Oct - 17 Dec 2014 Soho SquareSince opening, Frith Street Gallery has emerged as one of the art world’s most interesting forces, instrumental in developing the careers of internationally renowned figures as well as supporting those...Read more -
Bridget Smith
We Must Live! 9 Dec 2011 - 11 Feb 2012 Golden SquareHer new film and photographs examine how a particular community deals with notions of life and death and how faith is used as a refuge in moments of crisis. Filmed...Read more -
After the Volcano: A Summer Show of Gallery Artists 3 Jul - 14 Aug 2010 Golden SquareAfter the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists features work by 14 gallery artists: Massimo Bartolini, John Riddy, Anna Barriball, Dayanita Singh, Dorothy Cross, Bridget Smith, Tacita Dean, Juan...Read more
-
Summer Show
5 Jul - 21 Aug 2006 Soho Square -
Bridget Smith
Cosmos 4 Nov - 23 Dec 2005 Soho SquareFrith Street Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Bridget Smith. Using photography and film Smith creates images of both real and constructed spaces – locations...Read more -
Eccentric Spaces
4 Mar - 15 Apr 2005 Soho SquareIt brings together a diverse group of artists who have made work inspired by idiosyncratic, eccentric, outrageous or simply odd architecture and the effects it creates. Kenneth Anger’s Eaux D’Artifice...Read more -
Summer Show
10 Jul - 19 Sep 2003 Soho SquareDorothy Cross, John Riddy, Bridget Smith, Annelies Strba, Juan Uslé, Daphne WrightRead more -
Summer Show
27 Jun - 8 Aug 2002 Soho SquareFiona Banner, Dorothy Cross, Tacita Dean, Bernard Frize, Callum Innes, Jaki Irvine, Cornelia Parker, John Riddy, Dayanita Singh, Bridget Smith and Annelies StrbaRead more -
0 To 60 In 10 Years
A Decade in Soho - Part II 8 Jul - 13 Aug 1999 Soho SquareJane Hamlyn opened the gallery in 1989 and over the last 10 years, Frith Street Gallery has developed an international programme of painting, photography, sculpture, film and video, doubled its...Read more -
Fiona Banner, Bridget Smith
Only The Lonely 1 May - 20 Jun 1997 Soho SquareBridget Smith’s large colour photographs are infused with an illusive sense of fantasy and escapism. In 1995 she made some of her first photographs – a series of cinema interiors...Read more -
Dorothy Cross, Ceal Floyer, Cornelia Parker Helen Robertson, Bridget Smith
17 Nov 1995 - 13 Jan 1996 Soho SquareWhat happens when you take benign objects, lucky charms, a pearl necklace, loose coins, a lipstick and load them into a gun and fire them as bullets? And how do...Read more
-
Bridget Smith
De La Warr Pavilion 2006Paperback, 150 pagesRead more
Publisher: De La Warr Pavilion Trust Ltd.
ISBN: 0-9541043-6-6
Dimensions: 22 x 15.5 cm -
Bridget Smith
Society 2007Hardback, 94 pagesRead more
Publisher: Co-published by SteidlMack, Göttingen and General Public Agency, London
ISBN: 9783865214058
Dimensions: 23.4 x 30 cm -
Bridget Smith
Centro de Arte de Salamanca 2002Paperback, 76 pagesRead more
Publisher: Centro de Arte de Salamanca
Dimensions: 24 x 29 cm