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Dr Rachel Smith
@rachelartsmith.bsky.social
Artist | Poet | Lecturer Producing Vispo and Artists books using Drawing, Photography, and Writing.
Co-Editor of intergraphia books
www.rachelartsmith.com
Reading performances from this afternoon at the ex-Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield. A pleasure to read alongside the brilliant @emmabolland.bsky.social, @longbarrowpress.bsky.social and Conor Rogers. Thanks to everyone who joined us. The 'Checked Out' exhibition continues until 18 July.
July 12, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I shall be reading different works at events on the next two Saturdays
On 12 July, 2pm, an event as part of
“Checked Out” - at the former Wilko in Hillsborough, Sheffield.

On Sat 19 July 2-4 at Hive Cic in Bolton as part of Let’s talk about Text exhibition
July 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Myself and @emmabolland.bsky.social are here with @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social are here in Leeds at Pages artists book fair!

Come and say hi and buy our beautiful pamphlets from a whole host of wonderful artists and writers!
March 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Productive day in the studio yesterday.
Great to have room to scale up and to see the works in relation to each other to push things forward
March 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Seven A4 graphite drawings

Drawing in relation to stimming

An ecology of traces

Lines of flight

Neuro-queering the line

Hyperfocus while nudging them about in the studio

Reading Tim Ingold ‘Lines’
and Antonia Pont ‘Philosophising Practice’ in Practising with Deleuze
February 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
possible. Language

Starting to think about the combinations and arrangements in series of these graphite drawings with hand printed text.
Work in progress
January 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Busy few days in the studio combining graphite drawings, geometric shapes, and text using metal and wooden type hand printed
January 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Adding text back into the current drawing process

Thinking about ecology of lines, lines of enquiry, threaded thought, notions and the inbetween-ness of not knowing

Continuing to parse text from Deleuze ‘Logic of Sense’ - taking words either side of the full stops
December 6, 2024 at 10:03 AM
A snippet from my new handmade book
‘stopping. Or

This is my contribution to the AMBruno Artist book project 2024
This collection of 14 books was launched in the reading room of Tate Britain and is now part of their permanent artist book collection

More info here:
ambruno.co.uk/intervals.html
December 5, 2024 at 6:06 PM
December 5, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Studio day.
Stops and (w)holes
closing | opening

Abstraction / development of earlier works exploring full stops as a notation tool
November 25, 2024 at 12:01 PM
An incomplete box of old loose metal type letterpress

Experimenting with hand printing these into some current in progress drawings
November 23, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Tuesday morning walk

#newroutine #tuesday #walk #snow
November 19, 2024 at 9:45 AM
A look inside my recent book ‘small gestures of endurance’ published by Penteract Press 2024

It is an associative reading through Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’ folded with other domestic histories and a noticing of tiny details of equivalent objects
November 19, 2024 at 9:41 AM
So happy to have been published by the brilliant Timglaset editions this year and to be included amongst these gems!

To celebrate the new year Timglaset is offering a discount of 20% on all books published during 2023. Use code is WINTER24 valid until 1.31.24

Go on treat yourself!
December 31, 2023 at 4:55 PM
Layers | cutting | visibility | invisibility | surface

Expanding new details from work in my book Breath:e St(utter)ance
Published by the brilliant Timglaset
New projects in the offing for the new year!

#circle #cut #layers #reveal #mask #vispo #punctuation #research #reading #neurodivergent
December 18, 2023 at 5:02 PM
“800 Libraries” (poster and pamphlet) new work made with @emmabolland.bsky.social and Louise Finney published by @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social

A reading at ilkon contemporary arts centre as part of the Babble exhibition

#library
#Libraryclosure #artwriting #writing #art #poster #pamphlet
November 18, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Many Thanks to Art Language Location, Robert Good and the whole team for hosting an amazing weekend of artwork and performances

Some stills from my performance of my new book published by the brilliant Timglaset editions

#art #language #location #performance #books #words #vispo #publishing
October 16, 2023 at 7:20 PM
Beyond excited to see this out in the world!

'breath:e st(utter)ance'

Thanks to Timglaset editions : www.timglaset.com/produktsida/...

Printed on transparent paper. 88 pages, A5 format, contains one loose leaf insert.
#artistbook #punctuation #reading #error #vellum
October 11, 2023 at 4:50 PM
I will be performing my new work Breath:e St(utter)ance published by timglaset editions

The performance takes place on Saturday, October 14 at 2:30 during a free weekend of artwork, performance and events to celebrate 10 years of ART LANGUAGE LOCATION.
#performance #artistsbooks #lightbox
October 11, 2023 at 4:23 PM