JOHN NOEL SMITH – Didymus / Multipolar / Passage Emo Court are reimagining their village and

are reimagining their village and the institution at its heart

and serve as a mental notation to himself as to the sequence of thoughts in terms of how his work evolves

they often sidestep what is

Tuomey’s argument is bookended by two juxtapositions: firstly

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JOHN NOEL SMITH – Didymus / Multipolar / Passage Emo Court are reimagining their village anded. Monkia Smith, introduction by Enrique Juncosa, essay by Margarita Cappock ISBN 978 1010140 284 152pp (hardback) 29 x 24 cm 142 col illus This magnificent new monograph on the painter John Noel Smith focusses primarily on the last twenty years of his work. A singular abstract artist not only in an Irish context, but also internationally, Smith's paintings inhabit a world of their own. They draw the viewer into that world with a presence and energy