Artist statement
Steven Smethurst is a Vancouver based maker, hacker, and installation artist. Steven primarily works with light and technology. Light changes everything around it. It’s messy and bleeds into and over everything. It is loud and demands attention but its effects are temporary. Remove the light from the environment and the environment returns to its natural, unaltered state. Steven’s technological background adds unique interactive elements to his work. His work reacts to people, inviting them to touch, play and interact with his installations.
Exhibitions
- (2020) City of glass, Luminescence V Deer Lake Gallery
- (2019) Illuminated Stained Glass Tetragonal Trapezohedron, Vancouver Maker Faire 2019
- (2019) Stained Glass Windows, Luminescence IV Deer Lake Gallery, Vancouver Maker Faire 2019
- (2018) Stained Glass Windows, Vancouver Culture crawl.
- (2018) Edge lit lantern, re-vision Granville Island vancouver
- (2018) Pillar of Tetris, Sh’Bang festival
- (2017) LED Pillar, Vancouver Mini Maker faire
- (2017) Thunderstorm cloud, Luminescence Deer Lake Gallery, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2017) Laser Kaleidoscope, Luminescence Deer Lake Gallery, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2017) Fairmont Pacific Rim Bike Carousel, Chapel Arts and Fairmont Pacific Rim hotel
- (2017) Asics cloud project, HFour Studios
- (2016) Heart of Mount Pleasant, Vancouver Foundation
- (2016) Branchy light box, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Burning man
- (2016) Ball of life, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Basecoast, Burn in the forest
- (2016) CNC Zen Garden, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2016) Make the night, Absolute Make the night
- (2015) Pocket Universe, Burning man, Burn in the forest, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, SHHH25
- (2015) The 100 Day Project, The Great Discontent
- (2015) Mapping fairy Doors, Vancouver
- (2014) Thread map of vancouver, Maker labs
- (2014) The Giant Claw Game!, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2013) Glowing Vest, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2012) Tornado art, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire
- (2012) Teeth - Hot One Inch Action
Awards and Grants
- (2018) Lookout Arts Quarry grant - Pillar of Tetris
- (2016) Vancouver Foundation grant - Heart of Mount Pleasant
- (2015) Vancouver Foundation grant - Fairy doors
- (2015) Black rock city (Burning man) Honoraria - Pocket Universe
- (2015) Greater Vancouver Interactive Arts Society (GVIAS) grant - Pocket Universe
Talks
- (2020) Pecha Kucha Burnaby - Creative Progression: 100 days challange to a 1 year project
- (2020) Vancouver Creative Technology Meetup - Creative Consistency: An Illuminating Process