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Tomorrow 2021: Siena Smith
6 August – 5 September 2021

Tomorrow 2021: Siena Smith

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  • Working with weaving, drawing, collage, and lithography, I try to work out the complexities of my emotions and Black identity. Drawing and weaving give me the opportunity to create a foundation of imagery that I can build on. Layering with different mediums allows me to reflect upon and confront certain feelings... expectations, memories of feeling inadequate, angry, sad, joyous, proud, resilient. 

     

    Artists such as Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden and Kathe Kollwitz, illustrated the beauty and strength of the human condition as well as the suffering during wars, depressions and migrations. Because my family has lived through past pain, trauma and labor, I feel lucky that my work is a labor that I have the choice and freedom to do. Doing the work sets aside time to notice repetitive feelings and respond with new modes of making. Marks, threads, multiple materials assembled together create a representation of how I feel after a stressful conversation, after a racist comment, after watching my friends walk in a Black Lives Matter demonstration, after hearing my grandmother’s voice on the phone. 

  • Siena Smith
    Face II, 2021
    Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, oil stick, pastel, watercolour and collage
    88.90 x 60.96 cm | 35 x 24 in.
    Not for sale
    • Siena Smith Shadow, 2021 Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, graphite, paint marker, pastel, watercolour and collage 71.12 x 60.96 cm | 28 x 24 in.
      Siena Smith
      Shadow, 2021
      Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, graphite, paint marker, pastel, watercolour and collage
      71.12 x 60.96 cm | 28 x 24 in.
      Not for sale
    • Siena Smith Face I, 2021 Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, charcoal, pastel, watercolour and collage 83.82 x 60.96 cm | 33 x 24 in.
      Siena Smith
      Face I, 2021
      Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, charcoal, pastel, watercolour and collage
      83.82 x 60.96 cm | 33 x 24 in.
      GBP 3,600 plus applicable taxes
    • Siena Smith Covering, 2021 Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool 86.36 x 60.96 cm | 34 x 24 in.
      Siena Smith
      Covering, 2021
      Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool
      86.36 x 60.96 cm | 34 x 24 in.
      Not for sale
  • Siena Smith
    Timeline, 2019
    Jacquard woven textile, pastel, graphite, charcoal
    61 x 371 cm | 24 x 146 in.
    GBP 10,880 plus applicable taxes
    • Siena Smith Underneath, 2021 Jacquard woven textile 127 x 96.52 cm | 50 x 38 in.
      Siena Smith
      Underneath, 2021
      Jacquard woven textile
      127 x 96.52 cm | 50 x 38 in.
      Not for sale
    • Siena Smith Split, 2021 Jacquard woven textile, watercolour, pastel, collage 56 x 56 cm | 22 x 22 in.
      Siena Smith
      Split, 2021
      Jacquard woven textile, watercolour, pastel, collage
      56 x 56 cm | 22 x 22 in.
      GBP 1,820 plus applicable taxes
  • ALL SALES PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO THE ARTIST. 

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