28cm x 31cm

About artist: Mateja Šmic is a Dublin based artist, who graduated from NCAD in 2019 in fine print and critical cultures and is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin. Šmic works with gelatine and other, often non-traditional materials, chosen by a principle of association with her subject matter. Through printmaking, digital collage, video and animation Smic’s work combine philosophical and psychological questions of experience, and the phenomenon of Othering. Šmic’s reflexive and multi-layered art practice consists of intensive cycles and processes of intuitive and experimental engagement with her materials which become metaphors for intangible subjects. Solo exhibition: Aesthetics of a split subject - Engage Art Studios, Galway - 2019. Residency: What Could / Should Curating Do? - International curatorial residency led by Biljana Čirić, Belgrade, Serbia (awarded funding by i-Portunus) - 2019. Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects: Cabinet Award 2018, Black Church Printmaking Studio, Dublin, Ireland - 2018. ‘Clo after Brian O’Doherty’, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland: Response to Brian O’Doherty’s show ‘Language and Space’ in Irish Museum of Modern Art - 2018. Heed, to the Mound, Fringe Festival - The Complex, Dublin - Performance led by Emma Brennan - 2018. Graduate Exhibition, NCAD, 2019. ‘ECHOES - Clo after Kate Mac Donagh and Maria Simonds Gooding’, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin - 2019. The Office for Common Sound - led by Sven Anderson - a nomadic space devoted to working with the public to explore the everyday soundscape. NCAD Gallery, Dublin - 2019. Cairde Visual, Sligo, Ireland, 2021. Human Signature group exhibition with Paul Cabena, Anna Leask, Sarah Sexton curated by Barry Mc Hugh for Cairde Festival, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo - 2020. Silence - group exhibition at Graphic Studio Dublin, curated with Anne Hodge of NGI and Angela Griffith of Trinity College Dublin, 2021. Expanded - group exhibition at Graphic studio Dublin curated with Dr Andrew Folan, 2021. The Art of Home - group exhibition, collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community - 2021. Returning Home - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, Dublin - 2022. Returning Home - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, CHQ Dublin - 2022. The Art of Belonging - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, RHA Dublin - 2023. Annual Summer & Winter Exhibitions at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin (2019 - 2023).
About artwork: This work was inspired by Outhouse and the important work they do for LGBTQ+ community. It was made specifically for Art House auction 2023. The idea of home as a place you feel welcome to, comfortable, loved, a place where you belong resonated with me as important in thinking about LGBTQ+ community and some of the struggles they go through. "Home.35" was created using 35 lino printed and cut triangles, laid out on a lino printed background.
Website: https://matejasmic.com/
Instagram: matejasmic
Edition: Yes; 1/3 VE

Excellent Condition

Lino Print, Collage

Yes