Kirsty Smith
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Kirsty Smith is a Visual Artist based in Shetland. She has completed a BA in Fine Art at the University of Highlands and Islands. Recently she has been awarded the Patron Prize from the Royal Scottish Academy for her sculpture and drawing. Her practice examines change, time and place.
PLAYSITE
December 2019
found object, scale watercolour and graphite works, copper etching plates, projected animation
My most recent work is an exploration into rural sites as a social playground. Responding to the place(s), disused quarries, hilltops, croft houses, beaches and croft land, from the view of generations, anthropologist, land and contemporary art installation. Using traditional etching, shown in PROCESS . Illustrating the trans-formative nature of these places through the reactions of raw metal. The artwork is then taken back to the site as artwork, shown in site
