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. 

Heidi.smith@network.rca.ac.uk

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Fine art practice 

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