Artist’s Statement
I primarily work with painting, photography, print, assemblage, film and video collage that inspire a phenomenological questioning of how as women we see each other and ourselves. How does one see oneself? How does one feel seeing one self? My work engages with body awareness as coined by the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig in a concentrated way in my work. Being a female body predominantly in a domestic space this past year has enabled me to consider the feelings this can conjure up. I question how this translates into a visceral understanding of the human body, the female psyche and interiority. I make as a way of figuring the figure out letting wants inside out and back in again. Everything I touch in the domestic space is charged with use. I build my assemblages with household objects, I pour paint or plaster over them, wrap them in fabric, stand them on or against cement walls, metal stands, tripod structures. They are used as props in my self-portrait photographs and paintings where I am the subject matter, the model so to speak using my own image and objects that block out the face. I collect, draw, paint female portraits I collect images from the media to create intimate etchings and a painted wall that represents a female collective psyche of sorts. Currently, I am working on a new body of work, The Woman in the Window Project to engage with interiority as a concept to reflect on and to explore female identity within the history of feminist experimental methods in revisioning historical narratives. I am interested in developing a visual representation of women in their domestic space to reflect on female identity and the interior struggle a sentient body in the domestic space has on a physical, conscious and subconscious level.
VICKY SMITH (IRL)
Born in Galway where she now lives & works.
AGA collective associate member with the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, IRL.
Contact Details:
info(at)vickysmith.ie
Education:
2010-2011 MA Art in the Contemporary World with honours
National College of Art & Design Dublin, IRL
2006-2007 Diploma in the History of European Painting & Irish Art history, with honours
Trinity College, The University of Dublin, IRL
2003-2004 MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy with honours
Goldsmiths College, University College of London, UK
1998-1999 Higher Diploma for Art and Design Teachers with distinction
Crawford College of Art & Design & Cork Institute of Technology, IRL with distinction. TCR No. 174109
1997-1998 BA Honours Degree in Fine Art, Printmaking with distinction
Crawford College of Art & Design & Cork Institute of Technology, IRL
1994-1997 National Diploma in Painting with distinction
Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, IRL
Membership:
Engage Art Studios, studio member, board member(2015-2019),education&projects coordinator(2020-2021), Galway, IRL
126 artist-run Gallery life long member and board member(2010-2012), Galway, IRL
Féach a new Contemporary Visual Arts Centre, member of the steering committee(2011), Galway, IRL
VAI Professional membership No. 2393, Dublin, IRL
Teaching Council of Ireland, Department of Eduction and Skills, registration number 171409, IRL
Awards & Residencies:
2017 Individual Arts Bursary Galway City Council, IRL
2017 Galway County Council Artist in School Scheme. Tynagh National School, Loughrea, Co. Galway, IRL
2016 Galway County Council Artist in School Scheme. Tierneevin National School, Gort, Co. Galway, IRL
2014 Individual Arts Bursary Award, Galway City Council, IRL
2012 Visual Arts Residency at Galway Arts Centre selected by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway, IRL
2012 Winner of the adjudicator prize selected by Kate Howard, Brigit's Garden's exhibition, Galway, IRL
2011 Individual Arts Bursary Award, Galway City Council, IRL
1999 H.Dip Student of the Year Award, Crawford College of Art&Design, IRL
1999 BA Honours Degree Fine Art Student of the year, Crawford College of Art & Design, IRL
1998 Barry Malone Award, Diploma in painting, Crawford College of Art &Design, IRL
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions:
2022 Upcoming solo exhibition Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2015 A Final Soar into Orbit, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo, IRL
2014 House of Blindness, PS2 & Paragon Studios, Belfast, IRL
2013 Mega Bubble Space Burbs, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IRL
2011 Perambulatory Rhetorics, two-person show with Lisa Sweeney at The Niland Gallery, Galway, IRL
Group Exhibitions:
2021 Memento, Looking back, Looking forward OCG Winter group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery 17th December 2021
Pluid-The National Comfort Blanket curated by Claire Halpin and Madeline Hellier. A collaborative artwork made up of
1200 small square, individual artworks. The Cowshed Gallery, Farmleigh Estate 27 August to 5 September 2021.
On Paper a group show featuring works on paper co-curated by Olivier Cornet Gallery and art consultant
producer Jackie Ryan, 20 December – February 2021
2020 Resurfacing, end of year summer show, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, IRL 6-28 August 2020
The Morphing Feminine, a Bloomsday, group exhibition with the Olivier Cornet Gallery June- July 2020
Drawing On Don Quixote, Wexford National Opera, VUE Art fair, RHA and the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Jan-March 2020
BENCHMARK, 10 Artists and 11 Writers in collaboration, Linenhall Arts centre, January- February 2020,, Mayo,IRL
2019 Hiatus 126 Artist-run gallery Annual Members Exhibition, May-June, Galway, IRL
PERMISSION, exhibition in response to Notes to Self by Emilie Pine, Cúirt Writer’s International 2018
Somewhere between perception and reality, represented by the Olivier Cornet Gallery at VUE Ireland’s National
Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IRL
Narrating Self, Translating the Other, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IRL
2017 C40 One City at a Time, Olivier Cornet Gallery AGA collective exhibition VUE Ireland’s National Contemporary Art
Fair, RHA Dublin, IRL
Material Conditions with Platform Arts. Curators Hayley Gault & Alex Brunt Platform Arts, Belfast, IRL
Nasty Women, Pallas/Project Studios, Dublin. Curator Eve Woods.
The Meeting Olivier Cornet Galley, Dublin & Laois Arthouse & Library, Stradbally, Co. laois, IRL Curators Muireann Ni
Chonaill & Olivier Cornet
Impressions Printmaking Show, Galway International Arts festival Centre for Creative Arts &
Media, GMIT, Galway, IRL Curator Jason Hicklin, UK
Incognito A public Art initiative in aid of the Jack & Jill charity, Solomon Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2016 HouseWork, Wife, Woman, screening at An Taibdhearc Irish Language Theatre, Galway, IRL
Impressions biennale inaugural book arts exhibition & Galway International Art Festival, CCAM, GMIT,Galway, IRL
curated by David Ferry, UK
AGA Collective Group exhibition with David Fox, Paul James-Kearney and Sheila Naughton, Olivier Cornet Gallery.
Dublin, IRL
2014 Little Kingdoms, Catalyst Members Show, Belfast, IRL. Curator Mitch Conlon
2013 Engage Art Studios Members Show at 126 artist-run space. Curator Austin Ivers
Winter Open Exhibition, Rua Red Gallery Dublin, IRL.Curators Paul & Claire McAree, Grace McEvoy
PACE, Clifden Arts Festival, Co. Galway, IRL. Curator Shelly MacDonnell
Too Many Dinner Parties, The Shed, Galway, IRL. Curator Peter Mutschler, PS2 & Paragon Studios
Studios, Belfast. NIRL
Drawing on the Back of an Envelope. Curator Ian Wieczorek Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo, IRL
2012 Under-the-Counter(UTCP) Poster Manifestation, public art initiative, Galway, IRL.
Chemist at your Service, Annual Brigit’s Gardens Exhibition, Co. Galway. Curator kate Howard.
Visual Arts Producer for Galway 2020
#008000,The Shed, Galway, IRL. Curator Grace McEvoy
Latency, Linenhall Arts Centre, Curator Michaela Cutalya
2011 Spectrum of Activity The Black Mariah, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, IRL. Curator Padraic E Moore
Fragmentary Sites ‘in-flux’ a large scale multi part exhibition with ten artist led project spaces. Curator
Occupy Space, Limerick, IRL
Art & Curatorial Projects:
2021 Solas Nua voice over and text contribution to the Pandora Writing project “I Know, But only Just” an audio visual
collaborative project, Winter papers Vol.6.with writer Claire-Louise Bennett and visual artist Ruby Wallis.
"Bóthar na Trá" an art book created by our studio members which celebrates Salthill.
2019 Draw Your Own Magic, activity area installation, Tactical Magic, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts
2017 Impressions Print Exhibition GMIT Centre for Creative Arts & Media Exhibition facilitator
2016 Galway Print Studio Members Exhibition & Graphic Studio, Dublin, The Printworks, Galway
2013 Surface 3rd year paint Exhibition curated with GAC Visual Arts Officer, Maeve Mulrenann
Too Many Dinner Parties Project Coordinator with Engage Art Studios
UTCP collective poster exhibition curator
2010-2012 126 Artist-run Gallery board member& curator of Beyond Guilt Triology, Ruti Sela and Mayan Amir.
Employment:
2021 Making Space invited artist process led collaboration co-ordinated by Croi na Gaillimhe, Our Lady’s College, NUI and
the Atlantaaquaria. Galway, IRL.
Creative Schools invited artist to facilitate sculpture workshops with St Oliver Plunkett NS, Galway
Freelance Education Co-ordinator with Engage Arts Studios & Gallery of Children’s Art Director under development.
2017 Lecturer on the BA Degree in Photographic Media, year 1Ways of Seeing, John Berger(History ofArt) & year 3 the
Politics of the Image. Griffith College Dublin, IRL
2016-2017 Galway Print Studio, studio manager & education co-ordinator
2016-2017 Impressions Biennale exhibition facilitator. Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Galway, IRL
2015-2019 Galway Arts Education Agency. Director of freelance art workshops with Galway Arts Centre & Knocknacara
Community Centre, Galway, IRL
2010-2017 Superintending officer, Junior Certificate examination cycle with the Department of Education & Skills.
Registered teacher of Art, Craft & Design with the Department of Education & Skills & theTeaching Council of
Ireland 2009-2021. Substitute teacher of Art, Craft & Design in Galway City, County & Dublin City.
Exam Craft Peak Learning, Dublin, Junior Certificate & Leaving Certificate Art practical & Art history corrector
with State Exams Commission Junior Certificate Art & CSPE examinations corrector.
2010-2012 126 Artist- run Gallery, Galway. Board member (administrator, curator, treasurer & chairperson)
2008-2009 Lecturer on the BTEC National Diploma in Foundation Studies, GCSE year 9 & A-Level year 10 and 11, Fine Art
A-level, Photography A-Level. Sixth Form College, Ferndown Upper School, Dorset, UK. Saturday Art School
Tutor, portfolio preparation course. Bournemouth Arts Institute, Bournemouth, UK
2005-2007 Castle Park National School, Dalkey, Co. Dublin, IRL. Director of Art, craft & design
2002-2005 Substitute teacher of Art in various schools across London, UK
2000-2002 Teacher of Art with the British Council as part of the Teachers for Botswana recruitment scheme, Botswana,
Africa.
1998-2000 Cork Youth Reach & Teacher of Art, Craft & Design, Scoil Mhuire, Sidney Place, Cork City.
Continual Professional Development:
2021 Colour & Poetry: A Symposium Slade School of Fine Art 19 – 22 Mar (2021)
Brave New World: Artist reflection and discussion The Ark 12 February (2021)
Writing Applications with Maeve Mulrennan Sample Studios: Thursday, January 14th (2021)
Artist in the Community Scheme Funding with Áine Crowley from Create January 21st, 2-4pm
2020 Peer to Peer Make Show Grow Sample Studios, A4 Sounds, Engage Art Studios Work Show Grow:
Group Crits 10th November (2020)
CCA Crit. Chaired by Public Programmes Curator Laura McCafferty. 6 & 13 November (2020)
Art and Language' Workshop as part of 'Cahoots 2020: The Space Between' with guest curator Nicola
Anthony September 11th (2020)
Radio & TV
Review of Man with a Fabelous Tale, Sonia Shiel’s Exhibition, Galway Arts Centre,with Sean Rocks Arena RTE Radio 1 (2012) & TV interview with Irish Sky TV about Galway Print Studio (2016)
Artist talks & interviews:
2018 Fragments Chaired the Engage Art Studios exhibition talk as part of the Cúirt International Writers Festival at Just
Art It, Galway, IRL.
2017 Impressions Print Exhibition launch and exhibition opening speech CCAM, GMIT, Galway
Print Symposium presented on behalf of Galway Print Studio hosted by Cork Printmakers, IRL
2016 Printed Matter Galway Print exhibition Connacht Tribune Works launch and interview by Irish TV
2013 Art History Leaving Certificate lecture presentation Galway Arts Centre
Illuminate chaired exhibition talk with Ruby Wallis & Gerald Glynn at Nun's Island Theatre, Galway city
2011 What do you stand for? National College of Art &Design Seminar discussion on 126 artist-run gallery
2010 ArtSpace chaired exhibition talk event at Galway Arts Centre
Talking about Stuff &Things Niland Gallery & Engage Art Studios Contemporary Art talks
Bibliography:
Boland, Eavan, Editor of Poetry Review publication 124 Smith features a photographic still from House Work, Wife, Woman body of work 2017
Clarke, Paula an essay in response to The Meeting, Olivier Cornet Gallery, August, 2017
Duncan, Adrian. Review of Smith’s photograph in Spectrum of Activity, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, IRL Paper Visual Arts Journal 2011
Dunne, Aidan The best art exhibitions running across the country, The Irish Times 5th January, 2019
Dunne, Aidan Critics Choice Drawing On Don Quixote, The Irish Times, Ticket, January 18, 2020
McCormack, Ailve, A studio visit & interview with Vicky Smith about her studio practice, From the Studio Of….August 2011. McCormack is an independent curator based in London.
Tipton, Gemma The Best Art Shows to Spend Time With this Week..The Meeting, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1.The Irish Times, August 2017
Catalogues:
Nasty Women Dublin exhibition catalogue Pallas projects/Studios August 2017
Mega Bubble Space Burbs publication of Smith’s work for her solo exhibition at Galway Arts Centre featuring an essay by Claire-Louise Bennett, short fiction and essay writer. 2013 Galway City, IRL
Too Many Dinner Parties exhibition catalogue featuring Smith work Markers of Modeller’s and Turners
Fragmentary Sites A publication of photographs by Smith from a psycho-geography walk around Galway City, 2012, IRL
Féach- Look, Consider, Examine, Contemporary Visual Arts Centre Steering Committee Catalogue 2010
The Emperor's New Clothes, Tales Magazine; selected image for Vol 1, Issue 1, 2003
Discerning Eye, sponsored by ING Bank, Pall Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK 2003
Fresh Art Fair Catalogue 18-20 July 2003/2004 with an essay by Lucy McNeill Event Director
Iontas 2000, Sligo Art Gallery Eleventh National small works art exhibition and travel award
Untitled Fine Art Degree Show Catalogue, Crawford College of Art, Craft & Design, 1999
© 2021 Vicky Smith. All rights reserved.
I primarily work with painting, photography, print, assemblage, film and video collage that inspire a phenomenological questioning of how as women we see each other and ourselves. How does one see oneself? How does one feel seeing one self? My work engages with body awareness as coined by the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig in a concentrated way in my work. Being a female body predominantly in a domestic space this past year has enabled me to consider the feelings this can conjure up. I question how this translates into a visceral understanding of the human body, the female psyche and interiority. I make as a way of figuring the figure out letting wants inside out and back in again. Everything I touch in the domestic space is charged with use. I build my assemblages with household objects, I pour paint or plaster over them, wrap them in fabric, stand them on or against cement walls, metal stands, tripod structures. They are used as props in my self-portrait photographs and paintings where I am the subject matter, the model so to speak using my own image and objects that block out the face. I collect, draw, paint female portraits I collect images from the media to create intimate etchings and a painted wall that represents a female collective psyche of sorts. Currently, I am working on a new body of work, The Woman in the Window Project to engage with interiority as a concept to reflect on and to explore female identity within the history of feminist experimental methods in revisioning historical narratives. I am interested in developing a visual representation of women in their domestic space to reflect on female identity and the interior struggle a sentient body in the domestic space has on a physical, conscious and subconscious level.
VICKY SMITH (IRL)
Born in Galway where she now lives & works.
AGA collective associate member with the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, IRL.
Contact Details:
info(at)vickysmith.ie
Education:
2010-2011 MA Art in the Contemporary World with honours
National College of Art & Design Dublin, IRL
2006-2007 Diploma in the History of European Painting & Irish Art history, with honours
Trinity College, The University of Dublin, IRL
2003-2004 MA Arts Administration and Cultural Policy with honours
Goldsmiths College, University College of London, UK
1998-1999 Higher Diploma for Art and Design Teachers with distinction
Crawford College of Art & Design & Cork Institute of Technology, IRL with distinction. TCR No. 174109
1997-1998 BA Honours Degree in Fine Art, Printmaking with distinction
Crawford College of Art & Design & Cork Institute of Technology, IRL
1994-1997 National Diploma in Painting with distinction
Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork, IRL
Membership:
Engage Art Studios, studio member, board member(2015-2019),education&projects coordinator(2020-2021), Galway, IRL
126 artist-run Gallery life long member and board member(2010-2012), Galway, IRL
Féach a new Contemporary Visual Arts Centre, member of the steering committee(2011), Galway, IRL
VAI Professional membership No. 2393, Dublin, IRL
Teaching Council of Ireland, Department of Eduction and Skills, registration number 171409, IRL
Awards & Residencies:
2017 Individual Arts Bursary Galway City Council, IRL
2017 Galway County Council Artist in School Scheme. Tynagh National School, Loughrea, Co. Galway, IRL
2016 Galway County Council Artist in School Scheme. Tierneevin National School, Gort, Co. Galway, IRL
2014 Individual Arts Bursary Award, Galway City Council, IRL
2012 Visual Arts Residency at Galway Arts Centre selected by Maeve Mulrennan, Galway, IRL
2012 Winner of the adjudicator prize selected by Kate Howard, Brigit's Garden's exhibition, Galway, IRL
2011 Individual Arts Bursary Award, Galway City Council, IRL
1999 H.Dip Student of the Year Award, Crawford College of Art&Design, IRL
1999 BA Honours Degree Fine Art Student of the year, Crawford College of Art & Design, IRL
1998 Barry Malone Award, Diploma in painting, Crawford College of Art &Design, IRL
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions:
2022 Upcoming solo exhibition Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2015 A Final Soar into Orbit, The Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo, IRL
2014 House of Blindness, PS2 & Paragon Studios, Belfast, IRL
2013 Mega Bubble Space Burbs, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IRL
2011 Perambulatory Rhetorics, two-person show with Lisa Sweeney at The Niland Gallery, Galway, IRL
Group Exhibitions:
2021 Memento, Looking back, Looking forward OCG Winter group show, Olivier Cornet Gallery 17th December 2021
Pluid-The National Comfort Blanket curated by Claire Halpin and Madeline Hellier. A collaborative artwork made up of
1200 small square, individual artworks. The Cowshed Gallery, Farmleigh Estate 27 August to 5 September 2021.
On Paper a group show featuring works on paper co-curated by Olivier Cornet Gallery and art consultant
producer Jackie Ryan, 20 December – February 2021
2020 Resurfacing, end of year summer show, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin, IRL 6-28 August 2020
The Morphing Feminine, a Bloomsday, group exhibition with the Olivier Cornet Gallery June- July 2020
Drawing On Don Quixote, Wexford National Opera, VUE Art fair, RHA and the Olivier Cornet Gallery, Jan-March 2020
BENCHMARK, 10 Artists and 11 Writers in collaboration, Linenhall Arts centre, January- February 2020,, Mayo,IRL
2019 Hiatus 126 Artist-run gallery Annual Members Exhibition, May-June, Galway, IRL
PERMISSION, exhibition in response to Notes to Self by Emilie Pine, Cúirt Writer’s International 2018
Somewhere between perception and reality, represented by the Olivier Cornet Gallery at VUE Ireland’s National
Contemporary Art Fair, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IRL
Narrating Self, Translating the Other, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IRL
2017 C40 One City at a Time, Olivier Cornet Gallery AGA collective exhibition VUE Ireland’s National Contemporary Art
Fair, RHA Dublin, IRL
Material Conditions with Platform Arts. Curators Hayley Gault & Alex Brunt Platform Arts, Belfast, IRL
Nasty Women, Pallas/Project Studios, Dublin. Curator Eve Woods.
The Meeting Olivier Cornet Galley, Dublin & Laois Arthouse & Library, Stradbally, Co. laois, IRL Curators Muireann Ni
Chonaill & Olivier Cornet
Impressions Printmaking Show, Galway International Arts festival Centre for Creative Arts &
Media, GMIT, Galway, IRL Curator Jason Hicklin, UK
Incognito A public Art initiative in aid of the Jack & Jill charity, Solomon Gallery, Dublin, IRL
2016 HouseWork, Wife, Woman, screening at An Taibdhearc Irish Language Theatre, Galway, IRL
Impressions biennale inaugural book arts exhibition & Galway International Art Festival, CCAM, GMIT,Galway, IRL
curated by David Ferry, UK
AGA Collective Group exhibition with David Fox, Paul James-Kearney and Sheila Naughton, Olivier Cornet Gallery.
Dublin, IRL
2014 Little Kingdoms, Catalyst Members Show, Belfast, IRL. Curator Mitch Conlon
2013 Engage Art Studios Members Show at 126 artist-run space. Curator Austin Ivers
Winter Open Exhibition, Rua Red Gallery Dublin, IRL.Curators Paul & Claire McAree, Grace McEvoy
PACE, Clifden Arts Festival, Co. Galway, IRL. Curator Shelly MacDonnell
Too Many Dinner Parties, The Shed, Galway, IRL. Curator Peter Mutschler, PS2 & Paragon Studios
Studios, Belfast. NIRL
Drawing on the Back of an Envelope. Curator Ian Wieczorek Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo, IRL
2012 Under-the-Counter(UTCP) Poster Manifestation, public art initiative, Galway, IRL.
Chemist at your Service, Annual Brigit’s Gardens Exhibition, Co. Galway. Curator kate Howard.
Visual Arts Producer for Galway 2020
#008000,The Shed, Galway, IRL. Curator Grace McEvoy
Latency, Linenhall Arts Centre, Curator Michaela Cutalya
2011 Spectrum of Activity The Black Mariah, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, IRL. Curator Padraic E Moore
Fragmentary Sites ‘in-flux’ a large scale multi part exhibition with ten artist led project spaces. Curator
Occupy Space, Limerick, IRL
Art & Curatorial Projects:
2021 Solas Nua voice over and text contribution to the Pandora Writing project “I Know, But only Just” an audio visual
collaborative project, Winter papers Vol.6.with writer Claire-Louise Bennett and visual artist Ruby Wallis.
"Bóthar na Trá" an art book created by our studio members which celebrates Salthill.
2019 Draw Your Own Magic, activity area installation, Tactical Magic, Tulca Festival of Visual Arts
2017 Impressions Print Exhibition GMIT Centre for Creative Arts & Media Exhibition facilitator
2016 Galway Print Studio Members Exhibition & Graphic Studio, Dublin, The Printworks, Galway
2013 Surface 3rd year paint Exhibition curated with GAC Visual Arts Officer, Maeve Mulrenann
Too Many Dinner Parties Project Coordinator with Engage Art Studios
UTCP collective poster exhibition curator
2010-2012 126 Artist-run Gallery board member& curator of Beyond Guilt Triology, Ruti Sela and Mayan Amir.
Employment:
2021 Making Space invited artist process led collaboration co-ordinated by Croi na Gaillimhe, Our Lady’s College, NUI and
the Atlantaaquaria. Galway, IRL.
Creative Schools invited artist to facilitate sculpture workshops with St Oliver Plunkett NS, Galway
Freelance Education Co-ordinator with Engage Arts Studios & Gallery of Children’s Art Director under development.
2017 Lecturer on the BA Degree in Photographic Media, year 1Ways of Seeing, John Berger(History ofArt) & year 3 the
Politics of the Image. Griffith College Dublin, IRL
2016-2017 Galway Print Studio, studio manager & education co-ordinator
2016-2017 Impressions Biennale exhibition facilitator. Centre for Creative Arts & Media, Galway, IRL
2015-2019 Galway Arts Education Agency. Director of freelance art workshops with Galway Arts Centre & Knocknacara
Community Centre, Galway, IRL
2010-2017 Superintending officer, Junior Certificate examination cycle with the Department of Education & Skills.
Registered teacher of Art, Craft & Design with the Department of Education & Skills & theTeaching Council of
Ireland 2009-2021. Substitute teacher of Art, Craft & Design in Galway City, County & Dublin City.
Exam Craft Peak Learning, Dublin, Junior Certificate & Leaving Certificate Art practical & Art history corrector
with State Exams Commission Junior Certificate Art & CSPE examinations corrector.
2010-2012 126 Artist- run Gallery, Galway. Board member (administrator, curator, treasurer & chairperson)
2008-2009 Lecturer on the BTEC National Diploma in Foundation Studies, GCSE year 9 & A-Level year 10 and 11, Fine Art
A-level, Photography A-Level. Sixth Form College, Ferndown Upper School, Dorset, UK. Saturday Art School
Tutor, portfolio preparation course. Bournemouth Arts Institute, Bournemouth, UK
2005-2007 Castle Park National School, Dalkey, Co. Dublin, IRL. Director of Art, craft & design
2002-2005 Substitute teacher of Art in various schools across London, UK
2000-2002 Teacher of Art with the British Council as part of the Teachers for Botswana recruitment scheme, Botswana,
Africa.
1998-2000 Cork Youth Reach & Teacher of Art, Craft & Design, Scoil Mhuire, Sidney Place, Cork City.
Continual Professional Development:
2021 Colour & Poetry: A Symposium Slade School of Fine Art 19 – 22 Mar (2021)
Brave New World: Artist reflection and discussion The Ark 12 February (2021)
Writing Applications with Maeve Mulrennan Sample Studios: Thursday, January 14th (2021)
Artist in the Community Scheme Funding with Áine Crowley from Create January 21st, 2-4pm
2020 Peer to Peer Make Show Grow Sample Studios, A4 Sounds, Engage Art Studios Work Show Grow:
Group Crits 10th November (2020)
CCA Crit. Chaired by Public Programmes Curator Laura McCafferty. 6 & 13 November (2020)
Art and Language' Workshop as part of 'Cahoots 2020: The Space Between' with guest curator Nicola
Anthony September 11th (2020)
Radio & TV
Review of Man with a Fabelous Tale, Sonia Shiel’s Exhibition, Galway Arts Centre,with Sean Rocks Arena RTE Radio 1 (2012) & TV interview with Irish Sky TV about Galway Print Studio (2016)
Artist talks & interviews:
2018 Fragments Chaired the Engage Art Studios exhibition talk as part of the Cúirt International Writers Festival at Just
Art It, Galway, IRL.
2017 Impressions Print Exhibition launch and exhibition opening speech CCAM, GMIT, Galway
Print Symposium presented on behalf of Galway Print Studio hosted by Cork Printmakers, IRL
2016 Printed Matter Galway Print exhibition Connacht Tribune Works launch and interview by Irish TV
2013 Art History Leaving Certificate lecture presentation Galway Arts Centre
Illuminate chaired exhibition talk with Ruby Wallis & Gerald Glynn at Nun's Island Theatre, Galway city
2011 What do you stand for? National College of Art &Design Seminar discussion on 126 artist-run gallery
2010 ArtSpace chaired exhibition talk event at Galway Arts Centre
Talking about Stuff &Things Niland Gallery & Engage Art Studios Contemporary Art talks
Bibliography:
Boland, Eavan, Editor of Poetry Review publication 124 Smith features a photographic still from House Work, Wife, Woman body of work 2017
Clarke, Paula an essay in response to The Meeting, Olivier Cornet Gallery, August, 2017
Duncan, Adrian. Review of Smith’s photograph in Spectrum of Activity, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, IRL Paper Visual Arts Journal 2011
Dunne, Aidan The best art exhibitions running across the country, The Irish Times 5th January, 2019
Dunne, Aidan Critics Choice Drawing On Don Quixote, The Irish Times, Ticket, January 18, 2020
McCormack, Ailve, A studio visit & interview with Vicky Smith about her studio practice, From the Studio Of….August 2011. McCormack is an independent curator based in London.
Tipton, Gemma The Best Art Shows to Spend Time With this Week..The Meeting, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1.The Irish Times, August 2017
Catalogues:
Nasty Women Dublin exhibition catalogue Pallas projects/Studios August 2017
Mega Bubble Space Burbs publication of Smith’s work for her solo exhibition at Galway Arts Centre featuring an essay by Claire-Louise Bennett, short fiction and essay writer. 2013 Galway City, IRL
Too Many Dinner Parties exhibition catalogue featuring Smith work Markers of Modeller’s and Turners
Fragmentary Sites A publication of photographs by Smith from a psycho-geography walk around Galway City, 2012, IRL
Féach- Look, Consider, Examine, Contemporary Visual Arts Centre Steering Committee Catalogue 2010
The Emperor's New Clothes, Tales Magazine; selected image for Vol 1, Issue 1, 2003
Discerning Eye, sponsored by ING Bank, Pall Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK 2003
Fresh Art Fair Catalogue 18-20 July 2003/2004 with an essay by Lucy McNeill Event Director
Iontas 2000, Sligo Art Gallery Eleventh National small works art exhibition and travel award
Untitled Fine Art Degree Show Catalogue, Crawford College of Art, Craft & Design, 1999
© 2021 Vicky Smith. All rights reserved.
