Painter and draughtsman, born in Adelaide, South Australia, where he studied at the School of Arts early in World War II. After the war, in Paris he attended L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière and Académie Montmartre, with Fernand Léger in 1948–9. As well as Whitechapel Art Gallery and Tate Gallery Smart had a series of solo exhibitions at Redfern Gallery from 1967. Major Australian galleries including Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide hold examples. Lived for a time in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy.