about the art
As an artist I engage in an intuitive process of searching, gathering, incubation, envisioning and construction. My creative practice works consciously and subconsciously to explore and reveal ongoing and re-occurring themes such as mental and bodily sensation, trauma, death, transformation, the surreal and the ‘shadow self’. The creation of something new from the fragments of that which has been broken is a significant objective of the work and forms the basis of my visual compositions. The works function primarily as sites of division and dislocation between the internal state and the outer world.
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about the artist
Kathryn Kelly graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2009 with an Honours degree in Fashion Design. She currently lives and works in Cork, Ireland. Her creative practice at present is predominantly in the field of visual art, working with mixed media print and collage, assemblage, sculpture, installation, text and lens-based work.
EXHIBITIONS 2019 'Echoes of Past Sorrows' The Crypt, St. Luke's, Cork, Ireland - Solo show. Sublimation, Tactic @ The Crypt, St Luke’S. Cork, Ireland - with Ellen King (exhibition/sound) Cahoots, A4 Sounds, Dublin, Ireland - Group show 2018 ‘Thresholds - The Adjacent Possible’ The Tapestry, Liverpool UK – Group Show Zolala klub, Siopa Gan Ainm, Cork IE – Performance Evening Sample-Studios, The Bench-Space, Cork, IE – Group Show 2017 Darker-half, Filter, Cork Ireland with Dave Noonan – Collaborative Project Adrift with Uncertainty, The Courthouse Gallery, Clare, IE – Group Show Life is worth talking about, Cork City Hall, Cork IE – Group Show 2016 Ghostly Promises @ Cork Photo Fest, Cork Ireland KFEST, Arts & Music Festival, Kerry, Ireland Outsider, Strasbourg Central station, France 2015 Soul yearnings, Iontas Arts Centre, Monaghan, Ireland - Joint show with Maureen Considine 2013 POST-IT, Culture night 2013 @ Cork Printmakers, Cork, Ireland Borders & Crossings, IMPACT 8 Print Festival, Dundee, Scotland Circulation. Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Ireland - Joint show with Annette Persson Open Doors, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal Spela spelet, LAB. 125, Malmö, Sweden Running with Scissors, Basement Project Space, Cork, Ireland EDUCATION 2005 – 2009 BA (Honours) in Design Fashion & Textile Design. LSAD, Limerick Ireland 2002 – 2004 City & Guilds Diploma in Craft and Design College of Commerce, Cork Ireland |