About

Kathryn Kelly is a visual artist based in Cork, Ireland.  Working in collage, assemblage, textiles, mark-making, text and installation, she takes the idea of ‘otherness’ as a starting place to explore both personal and broader narratives.  Intuitively and through research, her practice brings disparate references together drawing from various aspects of her lived experience, identity, memory and homeplace such as; pre-Christian Irish imagery and folklore, queer counterculture, 70/80s pop culture, psychology and psychoanalysis, along with various meditative and visualisation practices which create a central context for what she does.  Themes are explored and expressed through methods of material process, fictional imaginings and emotive impulses and are often combined and arranged to create site-responsive installations that seek to evoke otherworldly liminal spaces of exile, mystery and ritual.

Supported by the Arts council of Ireland, ADI Connect and Kerry County Council.