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justin davin smith

Justin Davin Smith was born in Pembrokeshire, Wales. He works with ‘found’ archival documents, old photographic images and ephemeral film, developing ideas around the 20th century notion of assemblage and collage. He lives and works in London.

Country of residence: United Kingdom

justin davin smith

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New work needs a gallery: Cataclysm (2012)

11/10
Cataclysm (2012) is an online version of an installation originally developed with a live accompanied score, and varying in time depending on performance/site specificity. It re-uses 'found' 35mm print stock footage, memories embalmed in chemicals, and stored in bits, that, like my collages...

Ghosts - film collage

11/04
Ghosts is a film made without a camera. It is the re-imagining of a 1920s home movie, one that is deteriorating over time due to its nitrate based film-stock. The film and audio are created from found 'objects'; debris scattered digitally across the internet, data literally in bits. I have...
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Calling All Collagistes!!

02/04
In December 2004 the Tate Modern had a show dedicated solely to the art of collage, Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing. I notice quite a few artists on the Re-Create site use collage, and in many different ways. I have recently been in discussion with an artist-lecturer at Goldsmiths, John...
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GeoGrafx older work: drawings

30/03
Some older things. I really enjoy the simplicity of these. Spine hangs on my wall and a friend recently thought it was a botanical drawing...this idea I like. More to follow....
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Series GeoGrafx: Sketch book

16/03
The Series GeoGrafx has essentially three strands: 1. New Worlds 2. Drawings 3. Sketches Where it can take anything between 2 - 4 weeks or more for the development of the New Worlds, Sketches can occur in minutes, even seconds from discarded elements of the current work in progress. They are...

Works at Langenhagen, Hanover, Germany

16/03

What Art Does?/WAS MACHT KUNST?

16/03
Three of my works have been selected to show at What Art Does? an exhibition in Langenhagen, Hanover, Germany. What Art Does?/WAS MACHT KUNST? is a dialogical art project, examining the role and impact of art on society and society on art . // Ein dialogisches Kunstprojekt zum Einfluss der Kunst...

About

16/03
Series GeoGrafx: The pixel, the perfect flat square of colour, has allowed us so many new forms of expression. It also signifies a loss. Depth, tone, warmth – these attributes can no longer be used in the same way to describe digital works, as they were used to describe the old photographic...

GeoGrafx

16/03
As we embrace digital and electronic methods of communication, sometimes it is necessary to reconsider our engagement. Although I also create experimental video, I keep grounded by painting and the use of collage - a fascination of mine since childhood - that aims to illustrate that just because we...

GeoGrafx

16/03