Marlene Smith, Untitled, graphite on tracing paper, 1986
Marlene Smith often mines the archive in her work; familial and public, personal and official. She is haunted by what she finds here and returns repeatedly to find and fabulate.
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Marlene Smith is a British artist and curator, and one of the founding members of the BLK Art Group.
She was director of The Public in West Bromwich and UK Research Manager for Black Artists and Modernism, a collaborative research project run by the University of the Arts London and Middlesex University.
She is Director of The Room Next to Mine, an Associate of the Masking Histories Visible Project and Associate Artist at Modern Art Oxford.
marlene Smith
Under Glass
Modern Art Oxford
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25 October–16 November
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Artist talk: 1 November 4pm–6pm
