Selected

Selection of curated shows since 2007, bringing students, graduates to show alongside established practitioners with international reputations. Often in abandoned buildings invited artists, musicians and performers and a range of audiences reignite these provocative spaces to become public venues such as cinemas or art centres. Some in public galleries and civic buildings including a series of public performances and a suite of copper etchings for Cornish Mining World Heritage Sites.

See ‘Curated’ in the menu for more images and text.

Photo credits: Steve Tanner and listed

Image and Video Details:

1. ‘Revolver’ project and shows – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Volker Stox – 2007 – Daryl Waller – video, J Nielsen – sculpture – Photo by Simon Cook

2. ‘Revolver’ – Hadrian Pigot – Motorbike, Jesse Leroy Smith – Painting – John Keys Paintings in window – Lucy Willow – Sculpture, Photo by Simon Cook

3. ‘Revolver’ – John Nielsen – sculpture , Hadrian Pigott – video and Rupert White – monitor

4. ‘Revolver’ Hardback book from project – Written and Created by Jesse Leroy Smith and Volker Stox – Published by Falmouth University Designed by Samuel Michael and James Le Beau-Morley

5. ‘ART 75’ project and show – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Richard Ballinger

6. ‘ART 75’ Penzance Synchronised swimming team led by Fiona Ried 

7. ‘PRINT!’ – Historical and contemporary survey of international printmaking based in Cornwall, Exchange Gallery – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Bernard Irwin – cover image Matthew Benington

8. ‘PRINT!’ – 12 weeks Print workshop – TaAP collective project – Jesse Leroy Smith, Richard Ballinger, Chris Priest, Sam Bassett – Photo by Steve Tanner

9. ‘PRINT!’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

10. ‘PRINT!’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

11. ‘PRINT!’ – 12 week, rolling programme of artists, print workshop in gallery

12. ‘Possessed Possessions’ – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and TaAP – Photo by Steve Tanner – Exchange Gallery

13. ‘Possessed Possessions’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

14. ‘Possessed Possessions’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

15. ‘Possessed Possessions’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

16. ‘The Dark Rooms’ at CAST, Cornwall – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith – Poster design by Chris Priest

17. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith at CAST, Cornwall whilst a boarded-up ex community centre

18. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – Michell Hannah – video and Ishmael Hamon – drawings

19. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – Installation by Sam Bassett

20. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – Tim Shaw sculpture

21. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – Rachel Maclean – video and Tim Shaw sculpture

22. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – ‘The Forgiving head’ Installation and Performance by Jesse Leroy Smith

23. ‘The Dark Rooms’ – The Forgiving head installation and performance by Jesse Leroy Smith

24. ‘Fiat Lux’ – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Taap for Limbo show, Old coffin store Truro curated by Joseph Clarke and Sam Bassett

25. TaAp poster – ‘We have our eyes on you’ – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and TaaP

26. ‘Fiat Lux’ – for Limbo show, Old coffin store Truro curated by Joseph Clarke and Sam Bassett 

27. Bucca Gallery set up by Sam Basset co run with Jesse Leroy Smith and Henry Garfit

28. Bucca Gallery

29. ‘‘Suspended Sentences’ – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Mark Spray with Henry Garfit, Poster by Chris Priest – Image by Graham Gaunt – Ex Fish Factory, now Newlyn Film house

30. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Mark Spray with Henry Garfit, photo by Steve Tanner Ex Fish Factory, Now Newlyn Filmhouse

31. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – photo by Steve Tanner – Film by Mark Jenkin

32. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – Band led by Tom Rickman and Mark Kermode – photo by Steve Tanner

33. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – Paintings by Sarah Ball, Photo – Jono Whitehead

34. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – Music by Emlow

35. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – film by Graham Gaunt and installations by Emma Saffy Wilson and Faye Dobinson – Photo by Steve Tanner

36. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

37. ‘Suspended Sentences’ – Photo by Steve Tanner

38. ‘Vigil 25,000’ part of Picturing the Mines – Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Bernard Irwin funded by Cornish Mining World Heritage Sites – Photo by James Hankey

39. ‘What lies Beneath’ by JLS and Bernard Irwin, one of etching suite for ‘Picturing the Mines’ 

40. ‘Assembly’ – Paintings on copper by Jesse Leroy Smith part of ‘Picturing the Mines’ Curated by Jesse Leroy Smith and Bernard Irwin funded by Cornish Mining World Heritage Sites

41. ‘Sol Force’ curated by Jesse Leroy Smith as fundraiser for ‘Freedom from Torture’  Summer Solstice 2019 – Poster by Helen Ellis Brown

42. ‘Sol Force’ Performance by Amy Lawerence in James Turrell skyspace, Tremenheere Sculpture gardens – Photo Mike Newman

43. ‘Sol Force’ Sculpture by Tim and Claire Stocking Baker – Photo by Mike Newman

44. ‘Sol Force’ Installation by Roger Thorp in James Turrell skyspace, Tremenheere Sculpture gardens

45. ‘Sol Force’ sculptures by Matthew Benington – Photo by Mike Newman

46. ‘Unstable Monuments’ – curated by Matthew Benington and Jesse Leroy Smith

47. ‘Unstable Monuments’ – ‘Hide’ by Matthew Benington

48. ‘Unstable Monuments’ – ‘The Pantheist’ film by Jesse Leroy Smith and Roger Thorp

49. ‘Unstable Monuments’ – Painting by Sam Bassett and film by Bernhard Holaschke

50. ‘‘Unstable Monuments’ – film by Dick Jewell and sculpture by Joe Drakeford

51. ‘Unstable Monuments’ – Projection ’Tell Me’ project – by Marianne Keating

52. ‘PRINT!‘ – Film – opening night

53. ‘Unstable Monuments’ – curated by Matthew Benington and Jesse Leroy Smith – Film documentation by Roger Thorp – Music by ‘Death By Pharmacy