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 retrospective publication on the leading exhibitors there over the past ten years.
He has completed several major public commission
s, among them "Roadworks" in 1999, a set of twenty four paintings depicting men and machines of Cork County Council for its centenary. The following year he painted ten paintings for Kilkenny County Council entitled "The Millenium Landscape". He has won many awards including the Adam’s Award presented at the RHA in 2004 and the Irish News prize presented at the Royal Ulster Academy in 2012. He was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2012.
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