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Tarragon Smith

Date of birth 14.May.80
Place of birth Canada.
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact tarragonsmith@gmail.com

A lost Canadian, he is currently living in London, UK. Tarragon's superb paintings of young women and desolated landscapes are represented with an equal touch of emotionalism and distance - what he fondly calls Pragmatic Romanticism. This is seen in his engagement with both the source and the lie behind the Male Gaze; a social dichotomy usually directed (not exclusively) at young women and girls who are given the attributes, but the not reality, of sexual attractiveness. His models come from his strange assortment of friends. The landscapes come from the various places he has live and and grown to love.

Education
MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, 2006.
BA Fine Art, Minor in Art History, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada, 2003, or there about.

Awards
Kingston Portrait Prize finalist, 2005, 2007. (except in the latter case the painting got lost in the Royal Mails sorting office and did not make it to the exhibition. Indeed, it was never seen again.)

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 20.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects

 

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