At Monkton Arts we have 3 studios upstairs housing 5 resident artists,  and Arts Space across the road which houses one resident artists and Jenna and Dawns office and work space. 

If you would like to put your name down to have a studio we will contact you if one becomes available. Email monktonarts@gmail.com

Heidi has a fine art background and has achieved a MA in fine art painting from the royal college of art 2012 and a BA fine art from slade school of art 2009. Foundation art and design Chelsea college of Art 2004

Heidi also works as a tattooist for 10 years in Portsmouth. Alongside tattooing she is an artists in residence at Monkton arts on the Isle of Wight.

Currently Heidi is working through a project at Monkton studying the process of tattooing and mark making and drawing parallels to art history. By studying the carbon that she has tattooed from she wants to explore, identity, ego, symbolism and functionality. 

Heidi has shown her work here and abroad. Working in numerous media, performance , film, sculpture, theatre her main focus currently is in drawing, painting and tattooing. 

ARTISTS LINKS:

Heidi.smith@network.rca.ac.uk

Instagram ;Tattoo work

heidi_smith_tattooist

Fine art practice  heidi.fineartist