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Ballybeg, Oola, Co. Limerick
Now Showing: Jesse Leroy Smith
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Flag 1.5m x 1.2m
  • Born London 1966
  • Foundation Course at East Ham Polytechnic 1983-1984
  • BA (Hons) at Norwich School of Art 1985-1988
  • Postgraduate Diploma at The Royal Academy 1989-1992
  • strand
    Strand 1.2m x 1.42m
    terra firma
    Terra Firma 1.4m x 1.63m

     

    Graduation Show 1992

    Awarded RA Travel Scholarship
    which enabled me to go to Turkey and Greece

    Shows 1991-1992 include:

    Bruton St Gallery, Mayfair, London;

    Earthscape, Hastings, Sussex including Hastings Trust Award;

    Little Hills Gallery, Florida;

    Collaboration with composer, Guildhall School of Music, London

    monsoon
    Boy with Lurcher 1.5m x 1.2m

     

    "My work continued to be influenced over the next few years by travelling to Norway, Ireland and Nepal, where I compiled sketchbooks using found objects and any materials I had to hand. My subsequent paintings drew on the colour, landscape and textures that I had recorded. I used pigments with binders, wax, sand, ash, metals etc and adopted different means of mark making such as burning, pouring, spraying and staining to find appropriate forms of expression"-Jesse Leroy Smith

    dusk
    Dusk 0.44m x 0.38m
    sunrise
    Sunrise 0.44m x 0.38m

     

    Shows 2000 to the present include:
    Langham Fine Art, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
    New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
    National Print Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
    Badcocks Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
    Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
    Art Now Cornwall, Tate St. Ives, Feb-May 07
    Royal Academy, London, Special Exhibitions Gallery June-Oct 07
    Vigil, Solo Show, Goldfish Fine Art, Penzance June07
    Cross Gallery, Dublin 06-07
    Curated 'Printmaking in Penwith', Penlee House Museum, PZ, 07
    Transition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall, 05
    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (1996-present)

    muse
    Muse 1.3m x 1.2m
    garden
    Garden 1.2m x 0.9m
    garden
    After Hours 1.4m x 1.2m
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    Though not on display in the New Line Gallery, the paintings below can be purchased through the gallery.

    Idol
    Idol
    Smoke
    Smoke
    Red Arrow
    Red Arrow
    Prey
    Prey
    Leopard
    Leopard