Rémy Noë (born 8 December 1974), is a British painter, a member of the international

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, .

Life and work

Rémy Noë was born in

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Kent Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...

, England, to a French and Dutch father and English mother, but has lived in Medway for most of their life. From 1986 to 1993, he attended Vinters Boys School, described as "a living hell", and

Chatham Grammar School for Boys Holcombe Grammar School (formerly Chatham Grammar School for Boys) is a grammar school with academy status in Chatham, Kent, England. It is a selective school. From the 2017-18 academic year, the school planned to become co-educational and rema ...

. 1993-97, attended Canterbury College of Art for Foundation and BA in Fine Art, but was forced to leave by the

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. From 1997 to 1998, resumed a part-time BA, but was expelled for condemning "conceptual shit" and also threatened with arrest. Since then, Noë has worked in their father's garage, Medway Citroen. During this time they returned to studies at Canterbury Christ Church College, and obtained a Master in Fine Arts degree in 2011. In 1996, Noë's work was first publicly exhibited in ''Indo Gothic'', in Chatham, Kent. In 2000, took part in the first Stuckist demonstration against the

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outside

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. In 2001 founded the

Maidstone Maidstone is the largest town in Kent, England, of which it is the county town. Maidstone is historically important and lies 32 miles (51 km) east-south-east of London. The River Medway runs through the centre of the town, linking it wi ...

Stuckists group and was exhibited in the ''Vote Stuckist'' show that year. There were staged fourteen shows of the Maidstone Stuckists works in various venues, including pubs, libraries and the Maidstone Music School, as well as arranging expeditions of the group for "painting, inspiration and getting drunk". In 2004, Noë's work was included in '' The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' at the

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for the 2004

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. Noë has a hatred of cities, but does frequent Gothic nightclubs in London, and likes to spend time exploring Kent and researching

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. Norse and Anglo-Saxon

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are recurring themes in paintings, as are historical sites and the countryside in Kent. The use of

sacred geometry Sacred geometry ascribes symbolic and sacred meanings to certain geometric shapes and certain geometric proportions. It is associated with the belief that a god or goddess is the creator of the universal geometer. The geometry used in the des ...

and their own form of aesthetic geometry are features in the work. The colour and texture of some work "evokes a kind of modern Impressionism." Noë is

transgender A transgender (often abbreviated as trans) person is someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth. Many transgender people experience dysphoria, which they seek to alleviate through ...

and has suffered from gender dysphoria for their whole life "diving into mythic history to distance myself from the feeling I had about myself" and has received hormone treatment since 2010 from Charing Cross Hospital's gender identity clinic.

Notes and references

External links

Rémy Noë at the Walker GalleryOfficial Remy Noe WebsiteGallery of Rémy Noë paintingsThe Maidstone Stuckists
{{DEFAULTSORT:Noe, Remy 20th-century British painters 21st-century British painters Stuckism Living people 1974 births People from Chatham, Kent British people of Dutch descent British people of French descent British contemporary artists Transgender artists