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Photographs from The Ring Road
19 – 22 November 2026, The Copper House, Dublin 8

A solo road trip around Iceland in winter 2020, photographed weeks before the world shut down.

I’m delighted to share that my upcoming exhibition opens at The Copper House on Thursday 19 November, 6pm – 9:30pm. Drinks and food on the night, free entry, and everyone is welcome. RSVP through the link in my bio if you can and join my mailing list for very occasional updates.

The Copper House, 19 St Kevin’s Cottages, Synge St, Dublin 8
Opening: Thu 19 Nov, 6pm – 9:30pm
Fri 20 Nov, 9am – 1pm
Sat 21 & Sun 22 Nov, 9am – 5pm

#photographsfromtheringroad #Iceland #filmphotography #neiljsmyth #landscapephotography

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An accumulation of return, 2026
Archival pigment (gilcée) print
Available from Sophiegough.eu

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First developed during my residency in Kyoto, this work began through walking. I spent hours each day moving through the city, gradually becoming attentive to its architectural rhythms — shifts in scale and proportion, rooflines, thresholds, façades, material surfaces and the relationships between one structure and the next.

Many of the forms that began to recur were influenced by Kyoto’s traditional machiya houses, particularly their narrow proportions and the way they negotiate interior space, façade and street.

Each evening, I returned to the studio and made quick sketches from memory of the buildings and architectural fragments that had stayed with me. I was interested not in documenting them accurately, but in what remained once the physical building was no longer in front of me — what architecture might become after passing through movement, attention and memory.

Using graphite frottage from tatami mats, I brought a tactile record of these spaces into the drawings, connecting the visual experience of the city with the surfaces encountered beneath my feet.

When the sketchbook was full, I took it apart, separating the pages and arranging them across my studio floor. Gradually, they began to assume the form of a window I passed almost daily on my walk home — an ordinary but familiar landmark around which I had repeatedly oriented myself. Without consciously intending it, its architecture had entered the work through repetition.

I taped the pages together into a fragile, unresolved memory structure for my Kyoto exhibition, leaving its folds, joins and accumulated marks visible. Now in Ireland, the work has entered another phase: carefully scanned and reconstituted as a single print, carrying these traces forward into a new form.

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Available in 3 different sizes
on Hahnemühle Photorag
50cm x 50cm (pictured with figure above)
70cm x 70cm, or 90cm x 90cm

#print #memory #japan #drawing #sketchbook

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Happy to be showing my painting "Every Little Helps" at the first ever Lucan Culture Night opening on Friday 18th September at the Presbyterian Church, Main Street Lucan Village, 5pm till late so please come along if you can! There are 39 artists taking part, will be lovely to meet everyone. Thanks to @lucan_creativeartsnetwork for selecting this.

Acrylic on gessoboard, 40x50cm, framed by @thecopperhse

@lucanculturenight
#irishart
#artexhibitions
#painting
#contemporarystilllife
#domesticart

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Turas Dathaíoch (A Colourful Journey) ✨

Life unfolds in a beautiful spectrum of changing seasons, each bringing its own rhythm, lessons, and growth.🎨🦢

This piece is a celebration of that ongoing movement—embracing every season of the journey with all of its colour and continue to move forward and flourish.

✨ Limited prints available to order Please DM 💫

#IrishArt #IrishArtCollector #IrishArtCollectors #ArtCollectorIreland #paintingreel

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Stairways and nooks carry so much daily life—the rushing between rooms, the quiet morning steps, the evening wind-down, the changing light. Having this piece live right here in spaces and homes like this feels special: a gentle companion on the journey up and down, offering a fleeting moment of peace, presence and wonder every time you walk by. 🤍

Art really has an incredible way of turning a home into a sanctuary. ✨

#IrishArt #ArtCollectors #IrishArtCollectors #IrishArtCollector
#Ireland

Poll Question:
Where is your favourite place in your home to display art?

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Details of Grafted, 2026 — a new limited-edition print made in collaboration with @thecopperhse.

Using their Cruse Scanner, we were able to capture some of the delicious details and surface qualities of my raw bronze and Jesmonite sculpture edition.

The quality of the scan holds onto so much of the sculpture’s three-dimensionality — its texture, depth and weight — that the printed image almost takes on a trompe l’œil quality.

I’m so pleased with how this new edition has turned out ✨ Both the print and sculpture are now available through my online shop at sophiegough.com.

Print details:
Archival pigment (gilcée) print on Hahnemühle Photorag
70cm x 50cm
Limited edition of 25

#trompeloeil #sculpture #print #charcoal #graft

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Ready for delivery 💫

#gratefulheart #IrishArt #SwanPainting #ArtCollector #irishartcollectors

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New prints thanks to @thecopperhse

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