Caroline Smith is a Teaching Fellow and writer/performer whose practice-based research is in the field of participatory performance, interactive installation and cathartic exchange. Working as herself doubled, or as her alter ego, Mertle, she works intensively with a wide range of audiences.

Eating Secret, her current project, asks the public for their eating secrets in highly intimate one-to-ones. The secrets are delivered back on stage or in a gallery with domestic actions such as baking or painting with food. She has most recently directed audiences in Serbia to create collective food paintings that represent food and memory.

Her art practice is well documented in The Times and The Guardian (2009); reviewed in Blic magazine, Belgrade, Novi Novine, Novi Sad (2010); Contemporary Art Magazine, Total Theatre and Art Monthly in London (2008). Her work is in the collections of the British Library and Special Collections at Goldsmiths University. She is one of Channel 4’s Top Gastronomes.

Eating Secret was selected for the Tate Modern (one of 5 international feminists selected for ‘Feminism and the Archive’, 2009), Camden Arts Centre (appearing in Sally O’Reilly’s Big Art Rip Off for Fake Modern, 2010), Cochrane Theatre (for GFest, 2009) and most recently to launch IMAF (International Festival of Performance) at the Multimedial Art Gallery in Serbia, as part of the art residency programme in 2010. She was invited to participated on Food Glorious Food, an arts panel along with Bobby Baker and Oreet Ashery to discuss her projects on food, organised by Live Art Development Agency at the International Institute of Visual Arts, (IniVA February 2010).

Her first performance, Spank, was selected for the National Review of Live Art (2008) where she was International Elevator Artist, launching the Festival at Tramway in Glasgow; for the ‘International Symposium of Intimacy’ at Goldsmiths in 2007, where she performed at Albany Theatre; for the art collective OMSK at the Whipping Rooms in the East End; and Bad Grrls, Gadgets and Guerrilla Tactics for ‘re:Actor 2: International Conference of Digital Arts & Performance’ at Leeds University.

Publications include: The Issues – an 8 page intervention: The Edge (2009); Drawing on Experience in ‘The Moon’, an Arts Council / Feminist Review publication for the Tate Modern show where she paid homage to Bobby Baker’s food paintings; Golden Rain, published by Museum of Contemporary Art, A project for Stavanger, European City of Culture, (2008); Wasafiri (Hide and Seek with Rebels: Tracing Contemporary Queer Art in Cracks & Rips) published by Routledge (2007). Her fiction has featured in Tank magazine and Photoworks/ Cornerhouse Publications. She is on the Editorial Board of Brand Literary Magazine. She chairing a panel on "Queer Battlegrounds" for Allergic Bodies: Postgraduate / post doctoral Conference at the University of Greenwich, May 27th, 2010.

She has been commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad to show new work in June 2011.