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Film artist and UEL Professor John Smith celebrated with online retrospective

Friday 2 March 2007

A retrospective of the work of celebrated film artist and University of East London (UEL) Fine Art Professor John Smith has gone on show at tank.tv, a major online gallery of moving images.

John Smith is one of the most important British film and video artists of his generation. Since 1972, he has made over thirty film, video and installation works, many of which have been commissioned by The Arts Council of England, BBC2 and Channel Four Television.

Full length showings of four of his films, and excerpts from nine others, will be available to view at www.tank.tv from 1 March to 15 April 2007.

John Smith's films have previously been shown in cinemas, art galleries and on television throughout the world. They have been screened at over a hundred international film festivals and awarded major prizes in Hamburg, Leipzig, Oberhausen, Cork, Palermo, Graz, Uppsala, Bangkok and Chicago.

Professor Smith has been a tutor on the BA Fine Art course at UEL since 1979 and has also lectured on many other Fine Art courses around the country. His PhD was undertaken at UEL in 1998.

UEL’s School of Architecture and the Visual Arts has established a national and international reputation for excellence and creativity. For further details, visit www.uel.ac.uk.

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For details and pictures contact Patrick Wilson: 020 8223 2061 or 07951 797 975

Notes to Editors

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