Sandy Smith

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"All the time I was making this I was thinking of you"

Sandy Smith (born 1983) is a Scottish artist.

[edit] Biography

Smith was born in the small Scottish town Dunbar, and later moved to Glasgow to study Art at the Glasgow School of Art from 2001 to 2005. His first solo exhibition in Glasgow was in 2006.

[edit] Major works

"All the time I was making this I was thinking of you" was the title of Smith's last solo exhibition, at Market Gallery in Glasgow. This exhibition in July 2007 followed on from a four-week residency in the gallery space, where Smith spent his time making a flowering forest from craft materials such as crepe paper, tissue paper, Papier-mâché and poster paint.

"Junior: A monument in film making history" is the title an essay commissioned by the Artist from an academic essay writing company. The essay was to prove that Junior is the best film ever made, and reference various philosophers and thinkers such as Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud and Marc Augé amongst others. The essay itself is available to download from a website Smith set up specifically to host this project, http://www.juniorbestfilmever.com. The topic has very recently been made into a competition, whereby the Artist is offering a cash prize to whomever can write a better essay by the deadline of Christmas Day 2007.