Artist working across painting, spatial practice and moving image
Vilnius, Lithuania
www.ivetasmidt.com
ivetasmidt@gmail.com
Practise
Large-scale gestural painting and spatial projects exploring the perception of time, memory and embodied experience. Working primarily with acrylic and oil stick,I balance intuitive mark-making with slower, meditative gestures, allowing each work to function as a visual register of movement, attention and duration. My practice investigates how time is felt rather than measured, exploring the tension between lived experience and society’s impulse to control or optimise it.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 — Greige, Lukiškės Prison, Vilnius
2024 — Dvylika, Pragiedruliai Arts Centre, Panevėžys
2023 — In Absence, Season Gallery, London
2017 — Iveta Šmidt, The Good Spirits Co., Glasgow
2017 — 9:19, New Glasgow Society, Glasgow
2016 — Retrospective, Veneer Gallery, Glasgow
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 — Metamorfozės, Panevėžys Art Gallery, Panevėžys
Projects / Installations
2025 — Greige, site-specific exhibition, Lukiškės Prison, Vilnius
2024 — Theatre scenography, Theatre Menas, Panevėžys2024 - Instalation “Pauksčiai” Pragiedruliai, Panevėžys, LT
Research & Independent Projects2025=2026 — Artistic research on perception of time and temporality through painting and spatial experimentation, Lapland (5-month field research period)2023–2024 — Studio research exploring gestural painting as a register of time, movement and embodied perception
Residencies2019 — Galerie d’Écosse Residency, St-Laurent-de-la-Cabrerisse, France
Selected Production Design & Film Art Department
2025 — F1: The Movie, draughtsperson
2024 — Argylle, assistant art director
2023 — Slow Horses, assistant art director
2023 — Tetris, assistant art director
2022 — Lady Chatterley’s Lover, assistant art director
2021 — The Witcher, set design draughtsperson
2021 — The Dig, draughtsperson
2020 — Bridgerton, draughtsperson
2018–2020 — Outlander, junior draughtsperson
2019 — Shetland, art department assistant
2018 — Outlaw King, trainee draughtsperson
Production Design (Short Film)
2023 — Blackwool
2022 — Smile
2022 — Candy
2022 — Groom
Education
BA Architecture, University of Strathclyde
Collections
Works held in private collections in Europe, United States, and the United Kingdom.
Press
2024 — “Darbą su Holivudo įžymybėmis Iveta iškeitė į gimtąjį Panevėžį”, LRT
2024 — “Su Netflix, Sony, BBC dirbusi lietuvė nusprendė pasirinkti ramesnį gyvenimą gimtajame Panevėžyje”, Delfi Kultūra
2024 — “Iš megapolio – kurti į Panevėžį”, Sekundė
2023 — “Five Questions to Iveta Smidt”, New & Abstract
2016 — “7 Exhibitions Not to Miss in Glasgow This Summer”, The Culture Trip, by Tori Chalmers