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Ivan Smith is an Artist and Sculptor living and working in Derbyshire, UK.

In 1990, Smith along with a group of four other artists, formed Fine Rats International, to exploit the need for artist-lead initiatives - the result was a dynamic exploration of site-specific locations on a scale never before seen in the United Kingdom. Smith’s work developed through this experience in scale and ambition, with the introduction of multi-media elements such as video, light, sound and kinetics, providing a dynamic force within his sculpture and installations.

Exhibitions and residencies Internationally including ‘Life/Live’ at both the Centro de Exposiçodes / Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal and the Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, ‘All or Nothing’ at the Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, ‘Bull’ première at the Musee de Marseille and ‘Breathing Space’ at Artspace, Sydney, Australia and the UK including show at BoBo's Gallery, London, Huddersfield Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, in the late 1990’s an early 2000’s saw his work develop on an international platform. At the beginning of 2001 Smith was awarded the Henry Moore Fellowship in Sculpture at the University of Derby, where he producing a series of video and sculptural artworks in the UK and abroad during a two-year period.

Smith now works predominately abroad on exhibitions and residencies, which include ‘toe the line…’ MAMÜ Gallery, Budapest, ‘Túlsó P’art retrospective’ Miskolc, Hungary, ‘Window Shopping’ El Huis Experimental Intermedia, Gent, Belgium, ‘Embodying the Scenery of Ecology’ Juming Museum, Taiwan and ‘The Good, the Bad & the Ugly’ at Ashish Balram Nagpal Galleries Mumbai, India. Recent British exhibitions include ‘Living Proof’ at Bewick Court Towerblock, Newcastle, ‘The World is a Safer Place’ Globe Gallery, Newcastle, ‘underpin’ at the Rest Gardens, Nottingham City Centre and ‘Penny Black’ at VINEspace Gallery, London.