Rosie Hodgson Smith is an Edinburgh-based painter and curator, graduating from the Edinburgh College of Art in 2025. She creates digitally and physically remediated works. Using contemporary techniques, she presents speculative futures and possible pathways through digital landscapes and contemporary painting practices. Functioning as screens and palimpsests of the digital image age, the illusionary paintings are layered with internet archaeology utilising suggestions of image, infrastructure and user interfacing (UI).
She experiences her attention and engagement becoming an online currency. Content is fed algorithmically and non-consensually as we lose the skill of searching. She feels disconnected both in the physical and digital realm and wants to question our relationship to these spaces and their symbology. In this way, her work raises urgent questions about digital non-consensual consumption and naturalised infrastructures through the autonomy of painting.
Hodgson Smith is also the curator at SANKI, helping to guide fellow emerging talent into the gallery world. Through considered research and community building, she brings together artists from across Scotland and the world to foster dialogues on their contemporary concerns and builds a grassroots network of recent graduates, early-career artists, collectors and gallerists.
