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The artist John Noel Smith lived and worked in Berlin for twenty-two years, returning home to live with his family in Gorey, Co. Wexford in 2002. Widely regarded as a painter in Ireland and on the Continent, Smith's first foray into printmaking in Ireland has yielded fine results- an impressive body of work comprised of four etchings and two large carborundum prints. The series of triptychs created by the artist at the Graphic Studio Dublin in 2003 bring to printmaking the exquisite elegance and arresting compositional beauty of his paintings.
The tracery of lines in the shape of a three-looped knot, the bold vertical lines and the right-angled triangle fusing the series, are motifs that create an idiom, a painterly language that is entirely the artist's own. The themes of identity, language and a sense of place permeate Smith's oeuvre
Recent Solo Exhibitions
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Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
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| 2002
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R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
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| 2002
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R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
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| 1999
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Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
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Recent Group Exhibitions
| 2004
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Visiting Artists at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
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| 2004
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In the Time Of Shaking: Irish Artists for Amnesty International, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
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| 2002
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Works On Paper 2002, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
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