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Speedline

Geoff Smith, also known as ‘Speed’ and painting under the name of Speedline Art, spent his early years on his parents’ 4,000 acre farm – 70 miles inland from the town of Esperance on the Western Australia coast. His home town was a one-pub-post-office-and-wheat-silo-town called Grass Patch.

Finishing boarding school at the age of 16, Geoff returned

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