Jenny Smith (b. 1981 Victoria, BC) is an artist that challenges boundaries not only between disciplines, but between art and life. Her work is a response to her colourful past and an uncanny reflection of her current life living on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. Existentialism is brought to the forefront via the attribution of human qualities to her [typically forestry based] materials and in scattered ruminations that refute oversimplified ways of being rather ironically in contrast to the austere visuals they accompany. From a blue collar upbringing steeped in poetry, she was a winner of the Royal British Columbia Museum’s writing contest on Leonardo Da Vinci’s art and her paintings have been featured in multiple literary journals including on the cover of Room Magazine. After giving birth to her second child she shifted her practice to sculpture, which occasionally transmutes into interactive-engagement pieces that welcome the co-creation of both people and natural forces. In 2021 her interactive-engagement sculpture ‘In Your Hands’ was installed on the West Vancouver waterfront for the summer. In 2023 she engaged hundreds of Pender Island residents in a community art project themed upon the inner child.  Most recently, her public engagement multimedia sculpture, 'Cyber Tree' that explored the entanglement we have with AI and technology was installed at Maffeo Sutton Park for The City of Nanaimo's 150th anniversary.