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| NICK SMITH |
| 21/01/22 - 03/02/22 |
| Nick
Smith is an artist working in moving image, photography, drawing and
publishing. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2012 with
an MA in Photography, he founded Relief Press in 2013: a
micro-publishing house that creates artists and curatorial books,
specialising in photography. On his artist practice, Smith writes ‘My
aim is to create evocations that connect the past to the present. The
work usually starts with a specific moment of departure and/or arrival
within the realms of publicness, regionality, class, memory and the
image.’ For his exhibition at OUTPUT, Smith is exhibiting his 2020
split screen video ‘Where Were You When It Was Shit?’ The work examines
the artist’s youth growing up here in Merseyside from 1974-1996, a
turbulent period for the region. Created using found & archival
footage, and drawing influences from social realist landscape painting
and DJ sets from the mid 90s, the video features the Kirkby rent
strike, Toxteth Riots, Dockers Strike, Quadrant Park, Liverpool Garden
Festival and This Morning with Richard and Judy, as the artist reflects
on a social landscape wherein history might be on the verge of
repeating itself. Due to local lockdown restrictions, we were unable to open Nick Smith's exhibition to the public. Nick Smith and local writer Niloo Sharifi went on to present a collaborative work at OUTPUT. Sharifi was invited to produce a text in response to a private viewing of this exhibition, which was in turn incorporated into a new film by Smith. Learn more about the collaboration here. Listen to the OUTPUT Gallery Podcast interview with Nick using the player below or read a transcript here. |
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