This list of exhibitions at which work by Edwin Smith was shown is by no means complete, and doubtless contains some inaccuracies. Even Olive Cook, with her remarkable memory, was not able to provide a complete list.
The compilation has been drawn from many sources; much is from my own collection of catalogues, press releases, private view cards, notes, etc. The dates in bold represent solo exhibitions; the others were group shows that included Edwin’s work. Recent research carried out by myself and Brian Human of the Olive Cook papers held at Newnham College library, Cambridge, has shed some new light on dates and locations of exhibitions.
Date | Location |
Title or Event |
Work Included |
1944 | The Berkeley Galleries, London | Cats & Women | Paintings |
1970 | Joshua Taylor, Cambridge | Cambridge Festival | Photographs |
1973 | Aldeburgh | Aldeburgh Festival | Photographs |
1974 | Joshua Taylor (?), Cambridge | Cambridge Festival | Photographs |
1974 | House Gallery | Yearly, to 1981 or 82 | Photographs & Paintings |
1974 | The Minories, Colchester | Aspects of the Art of Edwin Smith | All Media |
1975 | Fermoy Art Gallery | Kings Lynn Festival | Photographs & Paintings |
1976 | Harlow Playhouse | details not known | Photographs |
1977 | RIBA (or 1979?) | Vernacular Architecture | Photographs |
1978 | Manchester University | details not known | Photographs |
1979 | Midland Group Gallery | details not known | Photographs |
1980 | Side Gallery, Newcastle | Fishing & Mining | Photographs |
1980 | Joshua Taylor, Cambridge | details not known | Photographs |
1980 | Arts Council, Touring | Modern British Photography | Photographs |
1982 | Joshua Taylor, Cambridge | details not known | Photographs |
1982 | Arts Council, Touring | Coal | Photographs |
1983 | Impressions, York | Record & Revelation | Photographs |
1984 | Victoria & Albert Museum | Edwin Smith – Photographs | Photographs & Drawings |
1984 | RIBA | English Gardens | Photographs |
1985 | Church St. Gallery, Saffron Walden | details not known | Watercolours |
1985 | RIBA | Visions of Eden | Photographs |
1987 ? | Clare College, Cambridge | details not known | Photographs ? |
1987 | The Barbican Art Gallery | A Paradise Lost | Photographs & Paintings |
1987 | University of Sussex, Brighton | details not known | Photographs |
1988 ? | Saffron Walden Museum | Record & Revelation (reduced) | Photographs |
1990 | Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury | The Spirit of East Anglia | Photographs |
1990 | Zelda Cheatle Gallery | Views of the Land (Group Show) | Photographs |
1991 | Hayward Gallery, London | Flora Photographica | Photographs |
1991 | Zelda Cheatle Gallery | Edwin Smith | Photographs |
1992 | Fry Art Gallery | Edwin Smith (1912-1971) | Paintings & Drawings |
1993 | Sally Hunter Fine Art | Edwin Smith | Paintings & Drawings |
1994 | Old Fire Engine House, Ely | (jointly with Olive Cook) | Paintings |
1995 | Clare College, Cambridge | The Inward Eye | Paintings & Drawings |
1995 | Sally Hunter Gallery | details not known | Paintings |
1995 | Cambridge Architecture Gallery | Urban Images | Photographs |
1997 | Fry Art Gallery | As We Were | Photographs |
2002 | Victoria & Albert Museum | Seeing Things: Photographing Objects at the V & A | Photograph |
Date unknown | Bradford – NMFPT | This Other Eden | Photographs |
Date unknown | Brighton Festival | details not known | Photographs |
Date unknown | Hayward Gallery | English Landscape | Photographs |
If you are able to correct any errors or fill any gaps, please contact me.
Roy Hammans 2012