(1995 - )
Miranda Smart was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire and grew up in the village of Wollaston. She studied Illustration at London College of Communication, where she wrote her thesis on the visual representation of music, graduating in 2017. She has exhibited her work in small galleries and art spaces in Northampton, London and Porto - where she spent a year living and working on her first self-published Audio-Visual Abstract Comic ‘Briz de Mar’. Her comics have been published in a number of anthologies and journals including Heavy Metal, Komikaze and Huck magazine, she was also named one of Broken Frontiers’ ‘Six to watch’ for 2020. Smart has worked on a range of collaborative projects with musicians and other designers and after an Arts Council grant in 2022 has been experimenting further with audio-visual comics and on projects with musicians Meddle, Brooklyn Ford and Megalashhh from her home in South London.