Rachel Smith

Rachel Smith is a Canadian born multimedia artist and storyteller in Hong Kong. She comes from a rural farming community where life had a very different focus. In her studio in Sham Shui Po, Smith works with paper, fabric and watercolour. Inspired by her love and occasional despair of the city she lives and works in, the scenes outside her studio window push her art in directions that are at turns comforting and alarming. Smith seeks to express in simple forms.

In the past decade, the city Smith loves has been vocal about its dissatisfaction with the status quo. Watching from the studio windows as events unfolded in subsequent years, Smith had time to reflect on struggles, voices and what it means to listen and be heard. She uses images from local media in her 2020 mobile series and the 2019, 365 day matchbox diary. As time passes and the city changes paths, Smith waits with her scissors, needles, threads and brushes to see what will emerge.