Events
2009 A touring exhibition is being prepared, but no dates are confirmed yet.
Sole Exhibitions
2003
Toys Grow Up
Pollock's Toy Museum, 1 Scala Street, London W1T 2HL, Goodge Street Tube, 020
7636 3452
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2001 The Sharp And Comic World Of Sam Smith: A Small Retrospective 1908-1983, Victoria Art Gallery, by Pulteney Bridge, Bath (tel. 01225 477233).
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1986 Southampton City Art Gallery
1984 Plymouth Arts Centre
1982 Bournemouth and Poole College
1980-1981 Serpentine Gallery, London
1979 Rhymney Valley Arts Festival at Caerphilly Castle: Humans & Harpies
and Other Themes
1978 Rochdale Art Gallery: Sam Smith Wood carvings
1972 Bristol City Art Gallery/Camden Arts centre, London/Beaford Arts Centre,
Devon, Retrospective.
1969 Primavera
1967 Design Research International, New York, U.S.A.
1967 San Francisco, U.S.A.
1967 Design Research, Cambridge, Massechusetts, U.S.A.
1966 Design Research International
1964 'Collage Colonels, tugboats and wild beasts, Design Reseach International,
New York, U.S.A.
1963 'Sam Smith's Latest Tin Collages', Portal Gallery
1962 Portal Gallery, Mayfair, London.
1961 'Droles - Gifts of Wit', Portal Gallery
1957-58 Contemporary Distractions, Primavera.
1956 'Coastal Waters Exhibition', Primavera
1956 Primavera, small boats
1955 'Microcosm', Primavera
1951 Burrough Gallery, Bristol.
1937 'Objects Under Glass Domes and Other Embellishments', Little Gallery, London.
1936 Little Gallery, 'Coronation Decorations'.
Joint Exhibitions
1989 'Craft Classics since the 1940's', Crafts Council Gallery, London.
1984-85 'Headhunters - An Exhibition of Fantastic Faces', Graves Art Gallery,
Sheffield, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, DLI Museum and Art Centre, Durham,
Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, City museum and Art Gallery, Stoke. Arts Council
of Great Britain.
1981 Ship-Shape Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
1981 'Handmade in Britain - The Crafts Council Collection', Stoke-on-Trent City
Museum and Art Gallery.
1980s 'The End of the PierShow', Athenaeum Gallery. Manchester City Council
and
Arts Council.
1980s Automata, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London.
1979-80 The Craft of Art, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Selected by Edward
Lucie-Smith.
1979 'Midsummer', Parnham House, Dorset.
1977 'Trinkets and Toys-Art Objects for Adult Amusement', Elements Gallery,
U.S.A.
1976 'The World of Toys and Puppets', Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.
1975 Love and Marriage in Folk Art and Life, National Museum of Wales.
1975 "Play Now and Then', Waterloo Place Gallery, by Crafts Advisory Council
1974 The First World Craft Exhibition, Ontario Science Centre, Toronto, Canada.
1974 'Everyman a Patron', Waterloo Place Gallery, by Crafts Advisory Council
1973 'Artist-Craftsmen in Europe', by the World Crafts Council, at the British
Crafts Centre , London
1973 'The Craftsman's Art', Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Crafts Advisory
Committee.
1973 Aspects of Modern British Crafts, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.
1973 Westminster Public Libraries, London. The British Toy-Makers Guild.
1972 'Eccentrica 3'at Presents of Sloane Street, London.
1971 Devon Craftsmen's Exhibition, Dartington
1968 British Toy Fair, at George Jensen Incorporated, Fifth Avenue, New York,
U.S.A. by Council of Industrial Design.
1966 British Toy-makers Guild Exhibition, Heals, London.
1964 Design Research
1960 Portal Gallery Christmas Fair
1942 'British Crafts', the Metropolitan Museum, New York, U.S.A.
Film
1976 Sam Smith: Genuine England. Arts Council of Great Britain, in association
with the Crafts Advisory Committee. Director Dudley Shaw Ashton. Transmitted
twice on BBC, Arena. Won several Film Festival awards
1961 'Perspective on Toys and Toymakers'. BBC film about Sam Smith and Yootha
Rose.
London Weekend Television. Artists at Work, Jeff Nuttall interviewing Sam Smith
Books
The Crew Cats, Benn, 1975, written and illustrated
Rover's Regatta Day, Benn, 1977, written and illustrated