Trak E Smith

Originally native to East Anglia, Trak E Smith is an established artist and trader in art and antiques working in his adopted home town of Nottingham,
Trak is a mixed media artist. He utilises many various styles and methods of working, as well as, and including traditional painting, ink, illustration, photography and two- dimensional sculpture as well as more established forms of sculpture to create pure visual statements that strive to encapsulate some of the more complex human issues that confront us such as the persistence of identity, the transience of existential beauty and the absurdity of confrontational controversy. The pieces currently on display explore the concept of the photographic statements concerning art and the often quoted statement concerning “the capture of a single moment in time that may never be regained or repeated”.

Incorporated elements of the ecological movement, the pieces on display (part of the LP:ICON series) utilises outdated technology or discarded artefacts to produce two- dimensional sculptural art- form which accentuates the theme of how identity persists both aurally and visually in each of us whilst challenging us, the viewer with a range of visual clues.

Trak lists his influences as “too diverse to mention” but remains passionate in his defence of anti establishment artists, musicians and writers. Artists such as Felicien Rops inspire him.

Currently Trak is working on a series of fetish illustrations and photography featuring aspects of society’s darker obsessions with sexuality to deliberately challenge the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill- Part 5 Criminal Law- Section 64 (Possession of Extreme Pornographic images) and would be pleased to hear from anyone who has strong views concerning what has been described as the “possible erosion of private civil liberties”.