Sculptor and designer, born in south Wales, who attended art courses locally and at West Surrey College of Art and Design, where he graduated with honours in three-dimensional design specialising in metals. He gained his master’s on a two-year course in the metalwork department of the Royal College of Art. After research courses in Germany, France and Iran, Smith designed street furniture and exhibited widely in Britain and abroad from the mid-1980s. Smith gained public commissions in London and the provinces, running a freelance practice. His colourful, idiosyncratic sculpture Lollipop Be-bop stands in front of Bristol’s Royal Hospital for Children, inaugurated in 2001.