Andrew Smith has recently been awarded an Arts Council of Wales Grant for a joint collaborative project Cysylltiad Lliw + Colour Connections with John Hedley. He has participated in the International Painting Symposium Mark Rothko at the Rothko Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia September 2021, followed by the Faberlull Residency in Catalunya. Andrew is a Wales based painter working consistently with colour by means of exhibition projects (Colour Equilibrium 2018) and exploring cultural contexts by establishing exchange links with international partners (most recently, Poland, Australia and India 2018 to 2019). He has worked on public art projects and commissions exploring colour in terms of location and scale (Barry 2009, Cardiff 2010, Russia 2011,  Llandudno 2019 and Llandrindod Wells 2021). His curated projects include Re/take Re/invent (2016) funded by Arts Council of Wales. In 2018, Andrew was AiR at Sauerbier House, South Australia for three months, supported by Wales Arts International. His most recent long term residency was in North East India followed by a tour of Madhya Pradesh with an exhibition at Alliance Français de Bhopal and this experience informs current practice. As an educator, he has taught throughout his career and until 2017 was Director of Fine Art at Bangor University.