Steve Smith Studio

About "Environmental Perspectives"

Environmental Perspectives: BP Atrium Gallery 

"they are generic spaces that can be found in any city: non-places, in a sense. In this way they may point at something more universal. Perhaps what is common to all these images is the inevitability of nature winning out over the concrete and the streetlights, and the illusion of permanence that we try to give to the world. In all these images, there is a conceit, and a check of that conceit: the grand Romanesque stencil drawings kept in place by the graffiti and the sagging pavements, the grass sprouting up through the cracks, the dilapidated fence.  ...................."the institutions of the eternal out of reach beyond the treetops, the obscurity of the views, and the railings of the balcony bring a sense of isolation and loneliness, almost futility. Finally, modernity itself is pushed back by nature, finding its way through the cracks. A street lamp is a peculiarly urban construct: a pushing back of the dark, of the natural. Here, the natural reclaims the space. However you might interpret these images, Steve Smith shows us to look again at the commonplace and the mundane, and to see what might lie beneath", Ian Grosz, 2018