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Blaise Smith (b.1967)
The Blue Island Bay near Allihies
(The Cow and Bull in the Distance)
Oil on canvas, 30 x 45.5cm (24 x 18”)
Signed, inscribed and dated August 2007
verso
€800 - 1,200
Born in 1967, Blaise Smith studied visual art at the National College of Art and Design in
Dublin. He has had numerous solo exhibitions at The Molesworth Gallery, as well at The Hunt
Museum in Limerick and Visual in Carlow. He has been selected three times for the BP Portrait
Exhibition at The National Portrait Gallery in London and in 2014 was included in a major ret-
rospective publication on the leading exhibitors there over the past ten years.
He has completed several major public commissions, among them “Roadworks”, a set of twenty
four paintings depicting men and machines of Cork County Council for its centenary. He has
won many awards including the Adam’s Award presented at the RHA in 2004 and the Irish News
prize at the Royal Ulster Academy in 2012. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal
Hibernian Academy in 2012.