“One of the East End’s premier creatives” - Southbank Centre

“A very special wonder woman” - Bow Arts Trust

Fayann Smith is a multimedia artist and creative consultant based in London, UK. Her practice spans experimental writing, music, film, photography and performance, operating between contemporary art, club culture and creative direction. Her professional trajectory is deliberately eclectic. As an instigator, impresario and creative director she has collaborated with leading figures across international art, fashion and music while also building a parallel history within London’s underground culture.

Smith has worked across a wide range of creative and organisational contexts. Her project management experience ranges from running a multi million pound art business with painter Stuart Semple to managing the press launch of a new Venetian art district, hosting a two day subterranean arts event in a derelict tram tunnel in central London and staging midnight themed events for the Curzon cinema chain. She is also the co founder of Temporal Shift, a digital creative studio exploring intersections of culture, technology and experimental practice for clients including Sony Music, MYNT and Creative Youth.

Smith co promoted several influential club projects in London and her most notorious venture, All You Can Eat, was recognised as an early multimedia fusion of art, fashion, music and technology. Blackdog Publishing described her as “one of the biggest names in nightlife” in their history of club culture Club Kids.

Her work and cultural output have been widely featured in international media including Vogue (US, Japan, Sweden and Germany), The Sunday Times, The Independent, Nylon Japan, The Observer, Forbes, Grazia, BBC Television, Artforum, The Art Newspaper, Artnet News, Frieze, Art Daily, Dazed, Surface, It’s Nice That, The Atlantic and Wallpaper, among others.

As a musician she has performed internationally, appearing twice at Glastonbury and sharing bills with artists including The Libertines, Clor, Zebra Katz, Midnight Juggernauts, The Noisettes and Siobhan Fahey. She has produced multiple albums of original music and written for artists including Leo Kalyan and Waxwings, as well as UK chart producer KDA. In 2021 KDA’s label The 40 Records signed her projects The Naked Grace Missionaries and Occult Hardware.

Alongside this expanded cultural practice, Smith’s fine art has been included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and exhibited internationally, including presentations at the Clifford Chance collection in Canary Wharf and at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Her work has appeared alongside leading contemporary artists and explores themes of identity, migration, technology and the shifting terrain of contemporary culture.