About — Alexandra Smart Art

Alexandra Smart is a Welsh/Scottish artist currently based in the Scottish Highlands. She is a recent graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, where she achieved a First-Class Honours degree in Sculpture and Environmental Art and won the Salt Space Graduate Award. Working across a variety of mediums, including installation, ceramics, textiles and illustration, she explores the mythology and folktales of her two homes, Scotland and Wales, alongside personal family mythologies and archives. Motifs from laundry appear throughout the work, symbolising both the care and connection of her grandmother and the vulnerability that comes with addressing deeply personal topics, like feeling as exposed as a pair of knickers on a washing line. Her practice often begins with graphic illustrations and prints, which then evolve into sculptural works and installations. These sculptures retain an illustrative and playful quality, inviting viewers into a world shaped by daydreams; one tinged with magic, grief, and nostalgia. She is 1/5 of the Collective Goods artist collective in Fort William.

Solo Shows

“Glas/Glas or The grey/green river and the grey/blue sky” created and shown at The Salt Space Gallery (Glasgow 2026) as the prize for winning their 2025 graduate award, and then picked up to be shown at The Glasgow City Heritage Trust (2026) with an accompanying workshop.

My degree show installation, “Annwfn, I Fought The Law And The Law Won” was shown at the Good Gallery (Fort William 2025).

Group Shows

My work has been featured in “New Highland Graduates” (Inverness Museum 2026), “Let Glasgow Flourish” (Maryhill Burgh Halls 2026), “Seeing and Being Seen”(Glasgow 2026), “The Glasgow School of Art Degree Show” (2025)

Workshops

“Exploring Glasgow’s Crest”, As part of my exhibition at the Glasgow City Heritage Trust I hosted a workshop where participants and myself walked around the Saltspace, learning about the mythology and history behind the Glasgow Crest, before making our own personal heraldry. (2026)

“Readymade Sculpture!”, Room 13 Studios. Two day workshop exploring the concept of the “Readymade” in sculpture with young people aged 12-17.

“We learned to see objects differently and saw how we could make new things with them” - young artist

“You could put a million different kids in that room and never have two pieces the same” - young artist

Press

Myself and my work featured on the first episode of “The Big Deal with Steph McGovern” on BBC2. I have been featured in the following print publications, The Skinny, The Scotsman, the Inverness Courier, The National, The Daily Express and The Northern Scot.

Awards

The Salt Space Graduate Award, 2025

Project Grant (Curatorial), Glasgow School of Art, 2024

Community

I am 1/5 of the Collective Goods artist collective in Fort William, where we run an art shop and small gallery space with a wider aim of creating a creative art centre in Fort William.

I am the chairperson of Cow Hill Hall, a local community group aiming to get a new community hall built in the Cow Hill area of Fort William. I lead an engagement project where we held an art competition and exhibition at McCallum Art House, Fort William.

I am a weekly volunteer at Room 13 Studios in Fort William, a local youth art organisation.