“One of the East End’s premier creatives” - Southbank Centre

“A very special wonder woman” - Bow Arts Trust

Fayann Smith is a multimedia artist and creative consultant based in London, UK. Her creative practice includes experimental writing, music, film, photography and performance. She is a founding member of October! Collective and co-founder of Atypical Industries.

Smith’s professional CV is eclectic and noted by major press as culturally impactful; in the role of instigator, impresario and creative director she has collaborated with some of the most directional names in international art, fashion and music. 

Her project management experience is superlative and broad, ranging from running a multi-million pound art business with painter Stuart Semple, handling the press launch of a new Venetian art district, to staging midnight theme parties for the Curzon chain of cinemas.

Smith’s work has been featured in US/ Japanese/ Swedish/ German Vogue, Dazed & Confused, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Nylon Japan, The Observer, Forbes, Grazia, BBC Television, Art Net, The Art Newspaper, Artsy, Art Forum, Time-Out London, Pop Magazine, i-D, The Atlantic, Disorder Magazine and many more respected titles.

Her most notorious club project All You Can Eat was heralded as a pioneering multimedia fusion of art, fashion, music and technology and she was dubbed “one of the biggest names in nightlife” by Blackdog publishing in their 2008 history of nightlife culture Club Kids.