Critic and curator - London
Open Frequency selector from January 2006
Cherry Smyth is an Irish critic, curator and poet living in London. She is author of Queer Notions, Scarlet Press, 1992 and Damn Fine Art by New Lesbian Artists, Cassell, 1996. Her short fiction is included in The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing, 2000.
Catalogue essays include Normapaths: the work of Jane and Louise Wilson, Chisenhale Gallery, 1995; Flown and Sealed: the Work of Orla Barry, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2002; and Intimate Handling: the work of Dirk Braeckman, A Prior Journal, Brussels, 2002, No Respect, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2004.
She writes regularly for Art Monthly, Circa, Dazed and Confused, Source and Modern Painters magazines. She was a visiting critic at Braziers International Art Workshop, 1999 and at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Castello, Spain, 2000.
She also curated Misbegotten at the Florence Trust, May 2002 and the Summer Show in 2002 and 2003. A collaborative text with Orla Barry appeared in Janus magazine in 2004. She curated Stay, a group show of 11 emerging artists at the Great Eastern Hotel, London, July, 2005 with Commissions East. She was a visiting lecturer at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht in 2005.
www.cherrysmyth.com
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