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 Education:

  • University of Kent: MA in the Cultural Study of Cosmology (spirituality/philosophy/myth)

  • Nottingham Trent University: BA (Hons) Decorative Arts Degree (glass, textiles, ceramics, wood, metal) inc. History of Decorative Art

  • Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication: BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design - with distinction

  • Sevenoaks School: 3 Advanced Level subjects Art (inc. History of Art), Business Studies and English

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Artist-in-Residence: 

Project Artist:

  • Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate - part of a team of four (2 teachers, 2 artists) creating primary and secondary school educational resources (see below - published writing)

  • West Sussex County Council - Big Draw projects written and delivered for three sites in the Heritage sector: Chichester Cathedral, Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve and Southwater Country Park and members of the public, a special needs school and a primary school respectively

Mentee:

  • To international glass and installation artist Emma Woffenden - as part of the Art Council’s National Touring programme, collaborated by The Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester and Fabrica Gallery, Brighton -

 

Public Commissions (inc. project management):

  • Hillingdon Hospital Trust, Mount Vernon Hospital Treatment Centre, Middlesex - public art commission

  • Private barrister’s offices, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London - public art memorial commission/competition winner

  • Sir William Perkins School, Surrey - public art commission/window

  • The Citizens Advice Bureau (Parliamentarian of the Year awards) presented at the House of Commons, London - commission to make glass award (every year for 4 years)

  • Radar The Disability Network (Disabled Person of the Year awards) presented at House of Commons, London - commission to make glass awards (every year for 7 years)

  • Soho Short Film Festival, Curzon Cinema, London - commission to make glass awards for all categories (every year for 14 years)

  • BBC Birmingham Film & TV Festival, Birmingham - commission to make glass awards (every year for 3 years)

  • Chelsea Flower show - research, design and model of stained-glass pyramid for show garden

  • British Film Council, London - free-standing stained-glass sculpture commissioned as internal presentation piece

  • Rock bands: Gamma Ray and The Black Crowes - pieces commissioned for Album cover shoots

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Private Commissions: Many nationally 

Arts Management:

  • Curator/Manager of a monthly programme of visual artists, sourced nationally, for The Waitrose Gallery an exhibition space established through a Brighton and Hove Council Percent for art collaboration with Waitrose supermarket (for 7 years)

  • Advisor regarding the establishment of a programme of ongoing monthly independent artist exhibitions throughout the building at The Old Market Theatre, Brighton

  • Curator of group exhibitions as part of the exhibition programme of Continuum, Sussex (contemporary arts group)

  • Curator/ Manager of (solo and group) exhibitions of my work, nationally

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Outlets (inc): Liberty's, London; Debenhams, Manchester; Camelot Castle, Cornwall 

 

Employment:

  • Namaste (Tibetan art gallery and shop) - Gallery Assistant

  • Chelsea House Interior Design, Kent - Interior design assistant

  • Joseph McCarthy’s specialist overmantel mirrors and frames - Assistant

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Voluntary employment:

  • River Ocean Research and Education, Sussex Art and Education representative

  • Ashdown Forest Centre Development Working Party, Sussex Art and Education representative

  • The Princes Trust, Sussex - part-time Arts Administrator/Advisor

 

Awards:

  • Annual scholarship - Canterbury Arts Council

  • Grants for the Arts (x3) - South East Arts/The Arts Council

  • Grants for the Arts - Kent Institute of Art and Design and Creative Partnerships, Kent

  • Arts investment Fund for 'open studio event' - Kent County Council

  • Grant, loan and mentoring - The Princes Trust

  • Grant and technical access (as part of the AA2A scheme) for 'glass pyramid' project - Central St.Martins College of Art

 

Sponsorship (Material/Financial/Support-in-kind):

Great Art; Seawhites of Brighton; The Dagett Gallery (Nottinghill, London); House of Fraser (Embankment, London); Tree News magazine; Designer Ironsmiths (Arundel, Sussex); Vektra printing (Littlehampton, Sussex); River Ocean Research and Education (Brighton); Travis Perkins (Brighton)

 

Teaching:

  • Worth School, Sussex - Design Technician/Glass Tutor

  • Turner Contemporary Gallery, INSET training sessions to teachers in schools in Kent Researcher/Tutor

  • King’s school, Canterbury/Sir William Perkins’s school, Surrey/Worth School, Sussex Glass Tutor (one to one/groups of secondary school students)

  •  West Sussex District Council, art workshops Researcher/Tutor as part of the Able Pupils Programme (to classes of key stages 1 and 2 students for 8 years)

  • Student observation in state and Steiner schools + first placement of 6 weeks teaching in a primary school re. PGCE in Primary Education at Canterbury Christ Church University College

  • Evolution Arts Centre Glass Tutor (adult education)

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Continuing professional development (inc):

  • The Princes school of Traditional Arts (5 day) course The Flemish Technique (The mixed method of  tempera and oil paint)

  • Creative glass, Rochester and the Contemporary Glass Society (1 week) international, combined flame-work and kiln-work glass course with Shane Fero and Silvia Levenson (attendance by selection)

  • Sussex University (10 week) further education course (Art and the Environment) with Red Earth land and performance artists (accreditation received); ETA (1 day) seminar (Engaging with the contemporary art market)

  • The Campaign for Drawing and Tate Modern (1 day) practitioner training; Wakehurst Place, West Sussex County Council and The Campaign for Drawing (1 day) practitioner training; Creative Partnerships Kent (1 day) Emotional Literacy Symposium + (3 day) Languages of Creativity Conference and (2 day) Creativity in Practice Training

  • Michael Hall Steiner School (6 day) Easter conference for teachers

  • UK Online (1 Day) seminar Sales and Marketing over the web; Art Council (1 Day) seminar Successful funding applications; Arts and Business (1 day) seminar Public and Private Arts Sponsorship applications

  • The Princes Trust, Sussex, ongoing training and support

  • Great Weald Enterprises, Kent, business training

  • Science Medical Network (2 day) conference (The Subtle Body)

  • Bruce Frantzis (1 day) course (Daoism and the Chi of Emotions)

  • Kent University, Canterbury (1 day and 2 day) International Cosmology Conferences

Papers:

  • Art, Alchemy and the Imagination - The topography of the landscape of the spirit - University of Kent MA Dissertation

  • The Platonic Spherical Soul and our understanding of the nature of being - University of Kent

  • A Juxtaposition of Platonic and Daoist Poetic Reality - University of Kent

  • Land art and Labyrinths - Adult Education Seminar

  • The Artist’s Spiritual Shadow-Self/ The Role and Responsibilities of the Public Artist - Sussex University Seminar

  • Creating Spirituality and Eternal Truths - Ceramics, Stained Glass and the Crossing of the East/West Divide -  Nottingham Trent University BA Dissertation

 

Research/writing:

(Unpublished):

  • Novel (work in progress)

(Published):

  • Poem ISBN 184436335X; 1st solo collection of poems ISBN 9781900051194

  • Educational Resource for The Turner Contemporary Gallery:Teach - Learn ISBN 0955236304 9780955236303

 

Exhibition List:

Most recent: Pelham House Hotel, Lewes; Afforable Art Fair, Battersea; Orleans House Gallery, London (collaborative show - Lace); Orleans House Gallery, London (collaborative show -The New Georgians); The Muse Gallery, London (solo show - She wears her spirit as a dress); The Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks (collaborative show -The Meeting Room, a Space for Minds to Meet)

 

Previous Collaborative shows (inc): Turners Hill Arts Festival; The Brighton Festival, Brighton, East Sussex (Open House exhibitions); Artists Open Houses at Christmas, Brighton; Canterbury Art’s Festival, Canterbury; The Narthex Gallery and Broughton House Library, Kings School, Canterbury; The Outfitters Gallery, Margate, Kent; Thebes Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex: Lewes Contemporary Art, Lewes, East Sussex; Meon Gallery, Fareham, Hertfordshire; Chichester Centre of Arts, Oxmarket Centre, Chichester, West Sussex; St. Peter’s Church, Brighton, East Sussex (Icons in Stained Glass); The Lewes Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex; Star Gallery 2, Lewes, East Sussex; Hampton Court Palace Flower show, London (with Vivid Space Design); Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery (Art in the Garden); Bury Art Gallery and Museum, Bury (A work of art in itself); Gallery 100, DMH Brighton, East Sussex; The Portico Library and Gallery, Manchester - collaborative show; Cusp Gallery, Burghley House, Stamford, Lincolnshire; The Contact Gallery, Brighton Media Centre, Brighton, East Sussex; The Gibbs Gallery, Canterbury, Kent; The Old Bakehouse Gallery, Fishbourne, Chichester; Ashridge Management College, Berkhamsted, Hertforshire (Young artists exhibition); The Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham (Degree show); The Business Design Centre, Islington, London (New Designers); Candid Arts Trust, London (graduate show)

 

Previous Solo shows: Sir William Perkins’s School, Surrey (Human Confetti and the Land of the Gods); The Arundel Festival, Arundel, West Sussex (Open House exhibition/installation); Changing Room Gallery, Lloyd/Aveling Park, London; Brighton Unitarian Church, Brighton; The Green Man Gallery, Eastbourne; Michelham Priory and Gardens, Hailsham, Sussex; Bridges, Edenbridge, (East Sussex/Open Studio event).

 

Trade shows: Mind, Body, Spirit festival - venues inc: Alexander Palace, London/The Royal Horticultural Halls, London; The British Craft Trade Fair, Harrogate; Olympia, London, as part of the Evening Standard Homebuyers show

Jo Ann Smart BA (Hons), MA

 

 

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Stephanie Jo Anne Smart BA (Hons), MA

The Waitrose Gallery

Brighton

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