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As the Anvil Falls
“I want to tell the story again”
The Greek myths tell the oldest tales of humanity, explaining the world and its imperfections. Written interpretations of the myths set them in poetry, with wordsmiths honing them to fit their time and place as well as their vision, telling the story over and over again. The myths have been the basis of our culture, shaping art and informing religion, over and over we have been telling the story again.
These are everyone’s stories and here Smith tells the story again. Using Greek mythology as a lens to observe the world, Smith makes work which is not rooted in time or place. His images retell numerous myths, through abstractions and metaphor, avoiding purely illustrating, instead of embellishing and shaping the myths in the image of his own experiences, as has been done for millennia. As the Anvil Falls as a photographic project is presented through a mixture of sculpture and book form, investigating and commenting on the prevalence of Greek mythology within our society and the ways in which it manifests within our everyday surroundings. Smith’s book of the work is due to be published by Tide Press later in 2020.
Sebastian Smith is a photographic artist and book designer based in Leeds, UK. He is a 2020 BA Photography Graduate from Leeds Arts University.
Smith’s practice is concerned with sculptural forms within everyday life, as well as traces of events and actions. Smith’s work has generally found the form of the photobook with his imagery merging with the design elements and the physical possibilities provided by the book to create a performative viewing experience for the reader. Smith’s imagery is sculptural in nature and this has led to Smith has beginning to explore sculptural forms of presentation for his work, mimicking forms with the imagery itself. This provides contextual resolutions to Smith’s work which are more gallery and exhibition orientated than that of his book forms. Smith has been making photographic works for around 8 years and making books for the last 3, he is currently in the process of launching a small design and publishing company Studio Rouffet Smith, this will champion young artists through publishing small run, low-cost publications.
Smith has participated in a number of exhibitions, including Traces (2020) a joint exhibition with Dovetail Joints as part of their virtual gallery project during the COVID-19 pandemic. He has also taken part in two group exhibitions; Myriad (2019) and New Archives (2020) both of which he co-organised, creating their graphics and identities. He has self-published four books and published one book with Salt ‘n’ Pepper press ‘Formless: a user’s guide’ in 2020. He is currently working with Tide Press to publish his latest body of work that is submitted here ‘As the Anvil Falls’.
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