175. Anne Smith - Moth

2025
Gouache, inks, gold, collage
15 x 10.5 cm (unframed) 26 x 21 x 3 cm (framed)

Anne Smith is an artist and writer based in East Sussex. Her paintings hold expansive spatial atmospheres within intimate formats, creating reflective works that explore memory, perception, and core positions of selfhood. Built slowly over extended periods — sometimes across months or years — the works evolve through processes of printing, painting, cutting, scrubbing, and rebuilding, allowing intricate detail to converse with bold material presence.

Balancing delicacy with material weight, Smith’s practice moves between intimacy and expansiveness, combining layered surfaces with a contemplative sense of space. Alongside her visual practice, writing forms an important part of her work. Her memoir, Eighteen Studios, was shortlisted for the Bridport Memoir Prize.

Smith studied on the TURPS Painting Mentorship Programme in Hastings and undertook studies in Miniature Painting at the King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts, London. She completed an MFA in Ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, USA, following a BFA in Ceramics at Boston University’s Program in Artisanry, USA.

Recent exhibitions include Odyssey at Hastings Contemporary, Hastings (2026), and the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London (2020 & 2022). Her work has also been exhibited at Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown; The Chelsea Arts Club, London; Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston; Garth Clark Gallery, New York; Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge, USA; and McIntosh Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.

Awards and distinctions include being Highly Commended for the Bridport Memoir Prize, receiving a Visual Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, USA, and being named both Fellow and Finalist of The Massachusetts Artist’s Foundation.

Her work is held in collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Smithsonian Institution Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.; Boston Public Library; Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Wisconsin; het Kruithuis Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, The Netherlands; the International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, New York; Fidelity Investments, Boston; KPMG, London; and General Electric Co., USA.