Michael Smith

Overfalls (triptych) 2023 (acrylic on canvas,
102 x 246 inches) – the artists studio

The Endless Play of Words and Images: An Interview with Michael Smith

April 2024  Interviews

As Michael Smith tells us in the following interview, his interest in poetry began in earnest when he entered the Bachelor program at the Falmouth School of Art in the early 1970s. He had the good luck to have Peter Redgrove, a poet and aesthetic polymath, as his professor, and under his influence began writing poetry himself. His interest was piqued by the word games that were part of the painting seminar and through them he began to appreciate the playful capacities of language. The poems Smith wrote at the time were good and he had some success in publishing them in literary magazines in Britain, but a combination of his essential attraction to painting and the recognition that becoming an even better poet was a huge endeavour persuaded him to concentrate on painting. But what he never lost was a sense that there was a connection between poetics and visual aesthetics. What also stayed with him was the puzzling and indirect nature of that relationship.

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Recent Exhibition

Michael Gibson Gallery

MICHAEL SMITH “A Part of Speech”

London, Ontario

SEPTEMBER 30 – OCTOBER 28, 2023

 

Upcoming Book Release

GOOSE LANE EDITIONS

Michael Smith : Sea of Change | Mer mouvante

Publishing date:   June 18, 2024
Publisher: Beaverbrook Art Gallery

Upcoming Exhibitions

Nicolas metivier Gallery

MICHAEL SMITH

NAVIGATOR SEAS

Toronto, Ontario

JUNE 15 – JULY 13, 2024

Beaverbrook Art Gallery

MICHAEL SMITH : SEA OF CHANGE

Fredericton, New Brunswick

Opening July 18, 2024

May 25 – November 7, 2024

TrÉpanier Baer Gallery

Calgary, Alberta

Fall 2024

MICHAEL GIBSON GALLERY

WATCH MICHAEL SMITH’S WEBINAR

ORGANIZED BY WordsFest LONDON, CANADA

zoom date October 21, 2023

“On October 21 we hosted a zoom conversation with Michael Smith where he discussed the strong connection between poetry and his paintings.  His cousin, James Sutherland Smith, joined us from Slovakia to read one of his poems and we talked about nature and the power of the written word.”

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March 13, 2021

Michael Smith uses photographs as a springboard to memory in his painting

by Deborah Dundas

TORONTO STAR

 

POST / REVIEW

March 13, 2021

Michael Smith uses photographs as a springboard to memory in his painting

by Deborah Dundas

TORONTO STAR

 

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March 3, 2021

SPOTLIGHT |Michael Smith: Font de Gaume

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