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Smith. It features and in-depth essay and extensive interview with the artist.
EXTRACTS
"John Noel Smith is a brilliant painter. There are few people of whom one can say that with any level of certainty. It is also a distinction that is widely disregarded in the contemporary art world, large sections of which tend to regard painting as a black box, a blanket category of activity about which such qualitative judgments are irrelevant. It is as if a painting is purely the sum of its content and no other considerations apply. Yet to say that he is a brilliant painter does mean something in itself. It means that, when we look at one of his paintings, it is easy to recognise that he is completely at home within it. It’s not so much that painting is his natural medium, more that it is his natural element. Perhaps he is not quite at home elsewhere in the world. Just as, over time, the process of evolution brought us out of the water and into the air, so he seems to have evolved to survive in the domain of paint. He is paint-adapted, you could say."
— from the introduction by Aidan Dunne
CONTENTS
A PAINTER IN HIS NATURAL ELEMENT introduction by Aidan Dunne 6-9
PAINTING DESIRE essay by Medb Ruane 10-15
A CONVERSATION WITH THE ARTIST interview by Aidan Dunne 16-23
COLOUR PLATES 24-137
Block Icons, 1977-1979
Towers I, 1989
Towers II, 1992
Lacerations, 1993-1995
Icons, 1992-1993
Palimpsest, 1993-1996
Ogham Works, 1995-1999
Snow Ogham, 1998-1999
Knots, 1997-1999
Five Spaces, TSSST, 1999-2000
Spiral Paintings, 2001-2002
Spaces, 2000-2002
United Field Paintings, 2001-2007
List of illustrations / Biographical notes
