Bernard Smith
MAY 2006
Pepperton Gallery SE London
MARCH 2006
Black Swan Arts, Frome.
Two sculptural pieces selected for a mixed
exhibition.
OCTOBER 2004
Participating in an exhibition in the ‘Chapel Gallery,’ Ormskirk, Lancs.
APRIL 2004
Some figures shown in the ‘Stroud House Gallery, Stroud.
NOVEMBER 2002
Exhibition at the Billingham Art Gallery, Teesside
Some pieces and paintings on local themes, others about theatre and music.
APRIL 2002
Sculptural piece, a piano, selected for the Nache 4 exhibition at the RCA, then toured the UK.
SEPT. 2000
Solo Exhibition in the Hartlepool Art Gallery, 40 watercolour paintings and many sculptural ceramic pieces, all based on the town and its Industrial environment.

Brief history before 2000
I studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art in London, (as a mature student), and in 1997 graduated with a B.A. in Ceramic design. Prior to this I spent twenty years teaching in Secondary Schools, mainly in London, and during these years did ceramics at evening institutes.
I was a student at Lancaster University from 1966 to 1969 to obtain a B.A. in Philosophy. (I also took mathematics and ancient Greek).
At the start of 1960 I went to Drama School in Birmingham, for two years, and then worked in various Theatres until going to University.
I was living in Hartlepool when I left school, at the age of fourteen, to be sent to a local factory, and until 1960 worked as an engineering apprentice and draughtsman. During these years I went to evening classes and day-release and obtained an HNC and HND in mechanical and structural engineering.
I was born in 1928 in Stockton on Tees.