Harriet Lloyd-Smith
Harriet Lloyd-Smith is the Managing Editor of Plaster, responsible for all content across digital and print. She was previously Arts Editor at Wallpaper* and has written for leading contemporary art publications, auction houses and arts charities, and lectured on review writing and art journalism. When she’s not writing about art, she’s making her own.
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In the painted world of Dominique Fung, not all is as it seems
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Dominique Fung’s surreal blend of opulence and objectification
Dominique Fung’s surreal blend of opulence and objectification
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Dominique Fung’s surreal blend of opulence and objectification

How does a Punk legend like Caroline Coon deal with rejection?
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Caroline Coon’s Rejection Letter: “The very word makes me nauseous”
Caroline Coon’s Rejection Letter: “The very word makes me nauseous”
Caroline Coon’s Rejection Letter: “The very word makes me nauseous”

When a new exhibition, ‘Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet’ opened at Tate, Harriet Lloyd-Smith thought it would be a fun idea to review it with no internet. It was not…
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I tried to review an art show like it was 1983. It was a disaster
I tried to review an art show like it was 1983. It was a disaster
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I tried to review an art show like it was 1983. It was a disaster

These days, we can’t believe anything we see. So from art, do we want truth or lies?
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Art is full of liars
Art is full of liars
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Art is full of liars

“In the end, all we’ll amount to is a sack of bloody slop”
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“In the end, all we’ll amount to is a sack of bloody slop”
“In the end, all we’ll amount to is a sack of bloody slop”
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“In the end, all we’ll amount to is a sack of bloody slop”

Moving on from an art world career is fraught with complexity, as Harriet Lloyd-Smith investigates
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What’s it like to leave an art world career?
What’s it like to leave an art world career?
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What’s it like to leave an art world career?

Harriet Lloyd-Smith reviews London's blingiest new art attraction
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Candy shop or art gallery? The sickly sweet world of Moco Museum
Candy shop or art gallery? The sickly sweet world of Moco Museum
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Candy shop or art gallery? The sickly sweet world of Moco Museum

Peter Blake, the ‘Father of British Pop Art’, discusses his biggest rejections
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Peter Blake’s Rejection Letter: “I suppose that counts, getting rejected by the Queen!”
Peter Blake’s Rejection Letter: “I suppose that counts, getting rejected by the Queen!”
Peter Blake’s Rejection Letter: “I suppose that counts, getting rejected by the Queen!”

Immersive is the buzzword of art this decade, but Anthony McCall has been immersing since the 1970s
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Anthony McCall: the father of immersive art
Anthony McCall: the father of immersive art
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Anthony McCall: the father of immersive art

Matthew Barney’s ghostly stadium dissects the brutality of American Football and our insatiable appetite for trauma
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Matthew Barney: an anatomy of sports violence
Matthew Barney: an anatomy of sports violence
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Matthew Barney: an anatomy of sports violence

“Vivienne always realised her status as a fashion designer gave her a platform, which she used to talk about everything else”
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Vivienne Westwood’s son and granddaughter on anarchy, activism and the “best thing she ever did”
Vivienne Westwood’s son and granddaughter on anarchy, activism and the “best thing she ever did”
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Vivienne Westwood’s son and granddaughter on anarchy, activism and the “best thing she ever did”

Not all is as it seems in Michaël Borremans' new London show ‘The Monkey’, as Harriet Lloyd-Smith discovers when she meets the artist
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Michaël Borremans: “We’re all just a species of monkey, just more deranged”
Michaël Borremans: “We’re all just a species of monkey, just more deranged”
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Michaël Borremans: “We’re all just a species of monkey, just more deranged”

Damien Hirst's morbid new collection show, curated by his son, gets Harriet Lloyd-Smith thinking about whether British art has lost its sting
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Who’s got a problem with Damien Hirst?