Daisy-Drew Smith
ARTIST · URBAN NIGHTMARE · MAY 2026

Something
Shifty Is Going To
Happen
Photography
2022
Contact for prints & pricing
What is going on in the back streets of Chicago? Do I even want to know? It's definitely something shifty.

A Little Bit About The Artist
A Statement From The Artist
Daisy-Drew Smith is an artist who works with photography and film. Currently, they are producing nature photography with a twist. Turning sometimes bleak and uncanny landscapes into saturated liminal spaces. Smith's work often falls back on their love of horror and the gothic. Capturing religious iconography in their film photos, showcasing the beauty of their intricate details, or the more eerie side of holy figures, and the ominous dark corners of the church.
Smith graduated from Bath Spa University in 2023, with First-Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art. They also studied art & film at Columbia College Chicago in 2022. Previously, Smith attended Birmingham Ormiston Academy to study Acting from 2017 - 2019.
In each series of photos, Smith creates and curates, there are noticeable film aesthetics. It is acknowledged in their colour grading and styles, as they use their photographs to pull together fictional cinematic universes. Acting as stills from movies that have never actually been made or released.
Do you like scary movies? And if so which ones?
I do! I recently saw Hokum which is now my new obsession...you have to watch it!
Who or what is the biggest influence in your practice?
The everyday. I don't get out much.


