Marie Smith is a visual artist and writer who was born, currently lives, and works in London. Smith graduated in 2017 with a Master of Arts degree in History of Art with Photography from Birkbeck, University of London.
Marie's creative practices are informed by their lived experience of being neurodivergent. Their work incorporates a range of media, including audio, digital, and analogue formats, alongside text used as a visual language that explores themes related to the body, nature, and sustainability.
Marie employs a lens-based photographic approach that uniquely uses low-toxic developers made from plants, food, or herbs to process analogue film. Because this particular method is not suitable for developing colour film, Marie primarily focuses on black and white photography and camera-less film processes.
Additionally, Marie has been actively exploring audio work and facilitating workshops with collectives as part of an effort to critically deconstruct and reframe their position within institutional environments such as archives, museums, and galleries.
Currently, Marie is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University London and has also held previous teaching roles at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the London College of Communication.
