Laura Smith
London based artist
@laurajrsmith
Education
2010 – 2012 MFA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art
2003 – 2004 The Drawing Year, Royal Drawing School (formerly Prince’s Drawing School)
1999 – 2003 BA Painting, Slade School of Fine Art
Awards
The Clare Winsten Memorial Award 2012
Shortlisted for Threadneedle Prize 2011 and 2016
The Richard Ford Award 2004
Recent Selected Exhibitions
2026
ROSA Art Fair, West Dean, Chichester, UK
Looking for Appearance, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Devon, UK
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2025
Held, Solo Exhibition, 155A Gallery, London, UK
London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, UK
The New English Art Club, Chris Beetles Gallery, London, UK
British Art Fair, 155A Gallery stand, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
The Winter Show, Browse & Darby, London, UK
2024
Contemporary Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London, UK
Reassorted, curated by William Feaver, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Birds Over Sea, 155A Gallery, London, UK
2023
Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Contemporary Gallery Artists, Browse & Darby, London, UK
Colour/Print/Poetry, online exhibition with Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Capturing Life: A Century of the New English Art Club, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK
2022
Winter Exhibition, The Wood Norton, Worcestershire, UK
New English Art Club, Linden Hall Studio, Kent, UK
NEAC Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2021
NEAC Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
In the Wings, online solo exhibition, Crean & Company
One, Paintings of Single Objects, 155a Gallery, London, UK
2020
Efflorescence, 155a Gallery, London, UK
Colour/Collage/Poetry, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
NEAC Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2019
Summer School Staff Exhibition, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Ruth Borchard Prize Exhibition, Piano Nobile Kings Place, London, UK
Heatherley’s Staff Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2018
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK
Little Clown, My Heart, Arthouse1, London, UK
Spring Exhibition, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2017
Creekside Open, Selected by Alison Wilding, APT Gallery, London, UK
Three100, No Format Gallery, London, UK
I Really Miss You Until You’re Here, White Conduit Projects, UK
Control to Collapse, Blythe Gallery, London, UK
2016
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Models and Materialities, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff, UK
Colombia Threadneedle Prize, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
Colombia Threadneedle Prize, short-listed artist, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK