Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art

Honest Espionage

A white walled gallery with two wall-based artworks visible. These are abstracted faces with large round glasses
Emily Mae Smith, Honest Espionage, 2016
Mary Mary, Glasgow International 2016
Images courtesy the Artist and Mary Mary Glasgow. Photograph: Max Slaven

Mary Mary

In her first UK exhibition, Mae Smith presented new paintings employing a personalised iconography that generates ideas about sexual politics, gender, humour, the artist and studio.

Mixing references as diverse as Disney and the Art Nouveau, her work is at once eccentric, cartoonish and sophisticated, offering us wry humour and intelligence.