2016-17
A CURIOUS TURN: MOVING, MECHANICAL SCULPTURE
An exhibition of automata. A touring exhibition organised by the Crafts Council (click for link)
2013
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

Works on paper, to accompany the show at the Scottish Fisheries Museum

2013
BOATS, BEASTS & BEAUTIES

The Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther  (click for link)

2003
TOYS GROW UP

Pollock’s Toy Museum, London

2001
THE SHARP AND COMIC WORLD OF SAM SMITH: A Small Retrospective 1908-1983

Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

1986
On Public Display

Southampton City Art Gallery

1984
On Public Display

Plymouth Arts Centre

1982
On Public Display

Bournemouth and Poole College

1980-81
On Public Display

Serpentine Gallery, London

1979
HUMANS & HARPIES  & OTHER THEMES

Rhymney Valley Arts Festival at Caerphilly Castle

1978
SAM SMITH WOOD CARVINGS

Rochdale Art Gallery

1972
RETROSPECTIVE

Bristol City Art Gallery / Camden Arts Centre, London / Beaford Arts Centre, Devon

1969
PRIMAVERA
1967
On Public Display

Design Research International, New York, U.S.A

1967
On Public Display

San Francisco, U.S.A

1967
On Public Display

Design Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A

1966
On Public Display

Design Reseach International, New York, U.S.A

1964
COLLAGE COLONELS, TUGBOATS & WILD BEASTS

Design Reseach International, New York, U.S.A

1963
SAM SMITH’S LATEST TIN COLLAGES

Portal Gallery, Mayfair, London.

1962
On Public Display

Portal Gallery, Mayfair, London.

1961
DROLES – GIFTS OF WIT

Portal Gallery, Mayfair, London.

1957-58
CONTEMPORARY DISTRACTIONS

Primavera

1956
COASTAL WATERS

Primavera

1956
SMALL BOATS

Primavera

1955
MICROCOSM

Primavera

1951
On Public Display

Burrough Gallery, Bristol

1937
OBJECTS UNDER GLASS DOMES & OTHER EMBELLISHMENTS

Little Gallery, London

1936
CORONATION DECORATIONS

Little Gallery, London

Joint Exhibitions

2010  Sea Fever: From Turner to Today  Southampton City Art Gallery

1989  ‘Craft Classics since the 1940’s’  Crafts Council Gallery, London

1984-85  ‘Headhunters – An Exhibition of Fantastic Faces’   Touring exhibition by 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.

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