'Notice' (2020)

Three different brown road signs installed in three sites: Scott Street, Civic Street, and Spiers Wharf. The brown road signs, which in Scotland highlight places of cultural or historic significance, indicate the viewers distance to three infamous sites in Scotland, all within a 70-mile radius of Stow College.

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'£36.95' (2018)

A space blanket offers basic thermal insulation for those suffering from hypothermia and £36.95 is deemed the absolute minimum for financial survival for Asylum Seekers in the harsh realities of UK economy. I wanted to juxtapose these ideas to create work that highlighted this inequality. The inflated structure is made from £36.95 worth of space blankets and insulating tape.

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How Do You Sleep At Night, Mrs May?

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'It's All Carpet and Wallpaper Shops Now' (2017)

In response to the gentrification of Glasgow’s East End, ‘It’s All Wallpaper and Carpet Shops Now’, used materials, household paint, wallpaper, vinyl tiles, bought in the local area and installed on the external walls, to highlight the loss of social housing in Glasgow.

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Alter Ego- Collaboration with Artists at Project Ability' (2020)

Working collaboratively with the artists at Project Ability we explored ideas of individuality through experimention with textiles, jewellery, ceramics and performance to become our 'alter egos', allowing us to be more confident version of ourselves.

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Holly Evelyn Smith is an environmental artist creating work for outside spaces. The projects she makes confront the public with information, rather than labelling it as art. Her work employs imagery, symbolism and conventional materials to disguise the unsanctioned work she installs.

These works remain active, hidden in plain sight, occupying public and civic space. Consequently, we can only understand them here through the medium of photography, documenting her unsanctioned interventions, installations and political actions. The themes contained in her work develop organically from an individual response to society’s problems, developing a practise reflecting an irascible confrontation with contemporary life in Britain.

She sees her role as an activist, using familiar objects to distribute information that is available but intentionally not made accessible. Her work juxtaposes controversy, confrontation and cynicism with the information necessary to inform the audience. Holly Evelyn Smith transforms her anxieties into something that others can understand, share in a collective awareness of… and act.