Morag B Smith
Born, Edinburgh
Education: BA Fine Art (Hons) 2.1
Moray School of Art UHI
W: moragsmith.scot
I: moragsmith_artist
Selected Exhibitions:
2023 Somewhere & Anywhere, The Steadings Gallery, Balmacara
2023 VAS West, The Briggait, Glasgow
2022 Cianalas, Circus Graduate Programme, Inverness Creative Academy
2020 Landscape of Place (online), An Tallas Solais, Ullapool
2019 LINKS, Nairn Book and Arts Festival
2019 Works in Progress, Links Studios, Nairn
2018 Moray School of Art Degree Show, Elgin
2018 Elements of Place, Orchard Road Studios, Forres
2017 Lonely Arts Club Members Exhibition, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery
2016 New Highland Contemporary 3, Nairn Book and Arts Festival
2016 WASPS Links Studio Exhibition & Open Studios, Nairn
2016 Beautiful World: An Artists Response to the Environment, Moray School of Art, Elgin
2015 FOUND, Moray School of Arts, Elgin
2014 Here we are at Home, Pop up Scotland, Edinburgh
Public Commissions
2020 Discover Moray’s Great Places
Events & Talks
2020 Online Artist Talk, Circus Artspace, (En)countering Crisis + Re:making Futures
2020 Online Artist Talk, Culture Café, Discover Moray’s Great Places
2020 Online Lunchtime Talk, Deveron Arts – The Illicit Stiller
Awards:
2023 Creative Scotland – Open Fund
2022 tsiMoray, Community Priorities
2021 Visual Art & Craft Makers Award
2020 The Adriana Sjan Bijman Artist Support Fund
2018 Shortlisted for Visual Arts Scotland’s Graduate Showcase
2016 Highland Fine Arts & Decorative Society Prize
Socially Engaged Practice
2023 A Creative Approach to Climate Change
2022 Climate Change & Women
2022 tsiMoray, Visioning Carbon Neutral Futures for Moray, Elgin Youth Cafe
2020 Our Place, Our Community, Workers Educational Association, Art & Writing course, online
2019 Study of Plant Structure & Form, Scottish Artists Union, Inverewe Residential
2019 Nairn Out loud, Workers Educational Association, Workshop, Nairn
2019 Landscape – Inner and Outer, Workers Educational Association, Art & Writing Residential Weekend, Eigg
2019 Women in the Highlands Conference, Workers Educational Association, Inverness
2019 Identity, Workers Educational Association, Residential Weekend, Latheron
2019 Identity and Inspiration, Workers Educational Association, Workshop, Nairn
2018 Highland Women Make Your Mark, Workers Educational Association, Workshop, Nairn & Aviemore
2018 Women in the Highlands Conference, Workers Educational Association, Inverness
2017 Identity – A Making Workshop, Nairn Book and Arts Festival
Other:
- Studio Holder, Links WASPS, Nairn
- Member Highland Print Studio, Inverness
- Visual Arts Scotland, Associate Membership
- Scottish Artists Union, Member
- Circus Graduate Associate