Emma Smith

Trustee

Emma Smith is a visual artist and works internationally. She has a social practice and makes installations, sculpture and performance. Through her practice she creates platforms for people to share research, experience and knowledge of human relationship with a particular interest in the hidden and invisible.

Emma has worked with local communities to Primary through her projects The Whistling Orchestra (2016) and 5Hz (2018-2019). She has exhibited in galleries across the UK and abroad including Tate Modern, Barbican, ICA, Whitechapel, Whitworth, Bluecoat, Arnolfini, Matadero Madrid, and Kunstmuseum Luzern and created public artworks for Invisible Dust, Up Projects, Sculpture in the City and Art on the Underground.

Emma regularly supports artists through mentoring. She Co-Founded and Co-Directed Delta Arts (2008-2012): supporting international artist exchanges and was Freelance Representative and Council Member for engage (National Association of Gallery Education, 2007-2014) advocating for ethical practice and fair pay for artists.

She has contributed artwork and writing to a number ofpublications on gallery and social practice including Gallery as Community (Whitechapel Publications (2012) and Public Servants (MIT and New Museum, 2016). Her book Practice of Place is published by The Showroom and Architecture Association.