Wingshan Smith
Wingshan Smith participated with Collective Ending in the Artist-Led Critical Exchange Programme as an artist from Backlit Gallery, Nottingham.
Bio
Wingshan Smith is an artist/curator/witch based in Nottingham. She leads the artist-led project space, Chaos Magic and is the creator of Tender Coven - an online space providing witch boxes, full moon circles, and other community coven events. She is also an Artist Development Curator at Freelands Foundation supporting emerging artists and regional arts ecosystems across the UK.
Her embodied practice explores the cathartics of rituals as a site for healing in community settings to re-route the viewer back to their own domestic sites where identities are first formulated. She is a current recipient of the Near Now Ideas Fund Award researching weatherlore, summoning rituals, anthropocene geopolitics, and predictive data.