Paul Smith

Paul Smith is a London based artist from Sunderland. His work is predominantly narrative abstract painting and collage exploring an interest in what is lost from memory and how that loss is “synthesized as trace in the landscape”. Paul has exhibited widely in the UK, most recently solo exhibitions ‘Uncertain Promises: The Unofficial George Eliot Countryside’ at One Paved Court, Richmond and ‘Are You Leaving for the Country?’ at Muse Gallery, Portobello Road, London. He was part of the touring Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2016 and in 2018 a residency with Staithes Studios Gallery in North Yorkshire was followed by a solo exhibition and later that year ‘Painting the Anthropocene’ at One Paved Court, Richmond.

Other notable exhibitions include the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2025), Won’t Stay in a World Without Love, Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea , ‘50/50’, Unit 1 Gallery, London (2024), ‘Wells Art Contemporary 24’, Wells Cathedral (2024), ‘X,’ British Contemporary Painting, Newcastle (2023), Griffin Art Prize (2015) and Neo Art Prize (2015). 

Previous selected group exhibitions include ‘Supernature’, The Auxilliary, Middlesbrough (2019), Rye Creative Centre (2020) & Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks (2021), ‘Two Fold’, OA Studios, Salford (2019), ‘Small Worlds’ PS Mirabel, Manchester (2018, 2017), and ‘Painting (Now)’ Studio 1 Gallery, London (2017) 

Paul has recently been elected a member of Contemporary British Painting. He has work in China Academy of Art, Hangzhou and in private collections in the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, and Germany