V I C K Y S M I T H
Vicky Smith is a multidisciplinary artist working with paint, photography, print, sculpture, film and video collage.
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • NEW WORK 2020
    • THE MORPHING FEMININE, 2020
    • DRAWING ON DON QUIXOTE, 2019
    • SOMEWHERE BETWEEN PERCEPTION & REALITY, 2018
    • C40, ONE CITY AT A TIME, 2017
    • MATERIAL CONDITIONS, 2017
    • HOUSEWORK WIFE WOMAN, 2016
    • A FINAL SOAR INTO ORBIT, 2015
    • EAS MEMBERS EXHIBITION 126 Gallery, 2013
    • HOUSE OF BLINDNESS, PS2, Belfast, 2014
    • RUA RED, 2013
    • MEGGA BUBBLE SPACE BURBS, Galway Arts Centre, 2013
    • MARKS OF MODELLERS AND TURNERS, Too Many Dinner Parties, 2013
    • CHEMIST SERVICE , Brigit Gardens, 2011
    • #008000, THE SHED Galway, 2012
    • UTCP Collective, 2012
    • BERLINERS IN A CAR, 2011
    • PERAMBULATORY RHETORICS, 2011
    • VIDEO COLLAGE, 2011
    • FRAGMENTARY SITES . In-Flux Limerick, 2011
    • THREE AGES OF WOMEN, 1998
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Human Characteristics of an Object.
Women’s garments James Joyce seemed to find as exciting as their bodies. ‘Material On The Head’ and ‘My Love Wears Light Attire’ are self-portraits. I wear a kitchen mop head on my head and an old reclaimed bedroom lampshade like a hat or garment. Why do you wear these cursed things? Joyce would ask Nora when she went to bed in her corset. Please take off that breastplate as I do not like embracing a letterbox. The wearing of domestic objects is playful. The wearing of a corset was compulsory. Different rules for different times. The objects morph into my head taking over my identity. They inhabit the position of my face. I am living in them it seems. Like Nora’s corset, the domestic sphere restricts the body. The corset was of her time. The domestic is mine. The kitchen mop and the lampshade now an identity in their own right are cursed things. Functional. Forever there ......

The Morphing Feminine, my response/reaction to and possibly a re-reading of various aspects of the feminine in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses. The Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin 1, Ireland. 17th of June to  20th of July, 2020.

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