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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For episode one of our new podcast, Give me a break, we’re joined by painter Pam Evelyn, who opens up about failure, juggling jobs and more
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Introducing the Give me a break podcast
Introducing the Give me a break podcast
Introducing the Give me a break podcast

Petr Davydtchenko’s roadkill tasting menu takes drive-thru dining to a new level
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A crash course in roadkill fine dining
A crash course in roadkill fine dining
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A crash course in roadkill fine dining

Is London in the midst of an art scene resurgence? Harriet Lloyd-Smith uncovers...
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Is the London art scene actually back?
Is the London art scene actually back?
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Is the London art scene actually back?

Ivana Bašić’s new sculptures extract the beauty and agony of the human body
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Ivana Bašić: “These materials are the truth”
Ivana Bašić: “These materials are the truth”
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Ivana Bašić: “These materials are the truth”

Artist Dan Guthrie and Harriet Lloyd-Smith travel to Stroud to find The Blackboy Clock, the subject of his new film, which imagines its destruction
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The death of Stroud’s racist clock
The death of Stroud’s racist clock
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The death of Stroud’s racist clock

Harriet Lloyd-Smith reports from a star-studded Chanel dinner at Harry’s Bar to celebrate art icon of the moment, Linder
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Plaster Shoots: a dinner for Linder
Plaster Shoots: a dinner for Linder
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Photography: Colin Mullins
Plaster Shoots: a dinner for Linder

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