Harriet Lloyd-Smith

London, United States

Managing Editor at Plaster Magazine

Managing editor @ Plaster magazine. Once @ Wallpaper*. Once upon a time @ Elephant. Art, music, etc.

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Articles

Is the London art scene actually back?

2 months ago | plastermagazine.com | Dora Bond |Harriet Lloyd-Smith

16 min read Even Harriet Lloyd-Smith isn’t jaded enough to notice the London art scene is rising from the ashes. Once again, people are horny for going out, seeing stuff and being seen. So what exactly is the scene, and what’s changed?
The commute with Pilar Corrias

2 months ago | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith |Jessica Klingelfuss

8 min read Pilar Corrias takes us on her London commute as she moves her eponymous gallery from Fitzrovia to Mayfair Journey: Camden Town to Mayfair (via Regent’s Park) Mode of transport: bicycle “It’s curious how going at different speeds makes you notice different things,” says Pilar Corrias as she pushes her bicycle alongside me through Regent’s Park past the muddle of tarpaulin, cranes and forklifts, a fluorescent-yellow blur of contractors working in performance art-like tandem to erect...
Frieze LA diary: “Who the fuck is [name redacted]?”

2 months ago | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith |Janelle Zara

12 min read Janelle Zara shares her notes from a wild ride through Frieze Los Angeles 2024. “I came, I saw, I covered.
What can the art world learn from sports?

2 months ago | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith |Jacob Wilson

6 min read As the art world winds down for the summer break, Jacob Wilson turns his eye to sport, and asks what art could learn from athletes The galleries are empty.
Dominique Fung’s surreal blend of opulence and objectification

2 months ago | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Harriet Lloyd-Smith

10 min read For Plaster’s guest editorship of Catalogue Magazine Issue 7.0, Harriet-Lloyd Smith discovers that in the painted world of Dominique Fung, not all is as it seems The Nepenthes is a majestic plant. Its leaf formations look like smooth, bulbous ceramic vessels with a sensual, feminine shape. Its colours are variegated and painterly – pastel pinks and oranges. Insects flock for a taste, weak to its charms. But this is Nepenthes’ trick: using beauty to deceive, to lure its prey before...
Plaster Shoots: a dinner for Linder

2 months ago | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith |Colin Mullins |German Larkin

7 min read Harriet Lloyd-Smith reports from a star-studded Chanel dinner at Harry’s Bar to celebrate art icon of the moment, Linder A double-booked diary left our editor Harriet Lloyd-Smith with a busy night on Wednesday, beginning with the Plaster store launch, then – in the mother of all vibe shifts – a Chanel Culture Fund dinner at Mayfair club, Harry’s Bar. Hosted by Yana Peel and Laura Bailey, the event celebrated British art icon Linder Sterling’s first London retrospective at the...
Ivana Bašić’s sculptures want us to get over ourselves

Mar 3, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Harriet Lloyd-Smith

12 min read The Serbian-born, New York-based artist latest intricate, bodily sculptures cut to the core of being human Ivana Basic’s exhibition tour took place at Albion Jeune gallery at 8.30 am. It’s an unholy hour for most who ride the art circuit, and certainly isn’t an hour you’d expect to transcend all earthly and bodily matter – but these things sneak up on you. I first saw the Serbian-born, New York-based artist’s work at the Prague National Gallery in 2021. I remember a pallid body –...
Ivana Bašić: "These materials are the truth"

Mar 3, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Izzy Bilkus |Harriet Lloyd-Smith

11 min read The Serbian-born, New York-based artist latest intricate, bodily sculptures cut to the core of being human Ivana Basic’s exhibition tour took place at Albion Jeune gallery at 8.30 am. It’s an unholy hour for most who ride the art circuit, and certainly isn’t an hour you’d expect to transcend all earthly and bodily matter – but these things sneak up on you. I first saw the Serbian-born, New York-based artist’s work at the Prague National Gallery in 2021. I remember a pallid body –...
The death of Stroud’s racist clock

Feb 14, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith

17 min read Artist Dan Guthrie and Harriet Lloyd-Smith travel to Stroud to find The Blackboy Clock, the subject of his new film It’s a late January morning when I find the artist Dan Guthrie under the information boards at Paddington Station. He’s hard to miss. His hair is dyed bright red and he’s carrying a large suitcase with a purple Telfar bag which he refers to as “my entire studio”. He is immediately funny, warm and razor smart. Today we’re catching the 10:32 to Cheltenham Spa, calling...
The week in art news: woman found under Picasso painting, Pete Doherty opens Berlin show, artists condemn Christie’s upcoming AI auction, and more

Feb 12, 2025 | plastermagazine.com | Harriet Lloyd-Smith

Portrait of woman found under Picasso painting. The portrait was found by conservators hidden underneath’ Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901) for over a century. Infrared and X-Ray analysis revealed a hidden painting underneath one of the Spanish artist’s most famed works from his Blue Period, as reported by Artnews.