Jack Smith b. 1928 (BAA 1953-57) Born in Sheffield. 1944-46 Sheffield College ot Art. 1946-48 served RAF. 1948-50 St Martin’s School of Art; 1950-53 Royal College of Art; 1952 first one-man exhibition, Beaux Arts Gallery, while still student at RCA, with whom he exhibited until 1958 when dismissed as his works were considered too realist. 1953-57 taught BAA part-time, made sculpture of children and dogs running (now destroyed). 1955 exhibited Willis Galleries, Bath. with BAA colleagues; 1956 exhibited Venice Biennale; 1957 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition; 1959 retrospective Whitechapel Gallery; 1964 London Group Jubilee Exhibition, Tate Gallery. Taught part-time at Royal College of Art, Sculpture Department, also Hornsey School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art and Chelsea School of Art, became Head of Painting. 1978 one-man exhibition Serpentine Gallery (Arts Council); 1979 retrospective exhibition of drawings, Brighton Polytechnic Gallery. Taught Brighton Polytechnic 1980 to present. 1984 included in The Forgotten Fifties, Graves City Art Gallery (touring exhibition). 1986 designed ‘Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum’ for Ballet Rambert, Sadlers Wells; 1988 Exhibition Road, Painters at The Royal ColIege of Art, Royal College of Art. 102 Snowstorm in a City 1952/53 oil on board 48 x 48 inches signed and dated Exh: Paintings by Jack Smith, Beaux Arts Gallery, February 1953 (18); The Forgotten Fifties Graves City Art Gallery (touring exhibition), 1984 (54a) 103 Objects in Space 1955/56 pencil on paper 30 x 38½ inches