Fine Art Student | Artist | Video Maker
Profile
Fine Art student at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, with a creative practice spanning moving image, image-making, language, objects and space, documentation, and collaboration.
I’m interested in how writing and video-making can be used as tools to help understand, juxtapose, and share ideas and experiences, and I have recently been filming my studio practice, layered with video essays and meditations, as part of an iterative process to better understand and share the structures behind creative idea development and ideas themselves.
Creative Practice and Digital Media
Rowan Briggs Smith - Instagram
Catching in the Currents – YouTube | 2026 – present
Catching in the Currents – Substack | 2023 – 2025
Education
Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford
BFA Fine Art | 2024 – 2027
The King’s Foundation
Foundation Diploma in Fine Art | 2023 – 2024 | Distinction
Hills Road Sixth Form College
Art and Design, Biology, Chemistry, Maths, EPQ | 2023
Selected Exhibitions and Projects
Interim Exhibition, Fusion Arts, Oxford | 2026
Group exhibition
Folded Horizons - Choral Recording Workshop, Worcester College, Oxford | 2025
Collaborative workshop: conducting a visual score with a choir of 8
RSA Prelims Exhibition, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford | 2025
Group exhibition
LIVE x EMPRes Event at Modern Art Oxford, Oxford | 2025
Live improvisation-based performance, involving collaboration between artist, musician, and audience.
TRANSLATIONS Performance Night, Dolphin Gallery, Oxford | 2025
Live improvisation-based performance, involving interactive sound, electronics, and graphite drawing
Dumfries House Oil Painting Residency Exhibition | 2024
Group exhibition
Kings Foundation End-of-year Exhibition at the Garisson Chapel, London | 2024
Group exhibition
Awards and Achievements
Egerton Coghill Landscape Prize | 2026
Awarded for ‘Folded Horizons,’ a graphic score exploring fragmented imagery and sketchbook writings, for SSAATTBB choir
John Morris RSA Prize for Anatomy | 2025
Longlisted for Jackson’s Painting Prize | 2020
President’s Prize, Young Artists Summer Show, Royal Academy of Art, London | 2019