About

Kathryn Kelly is a visual artist based in Cork, Ireland.  Working in assemblage, sculpture, textiles, mark-making and text, intuitively and through research; she takes the idea of ‘otherness’ as a starting place to explore both personal and broader narratives.   Her practice brings disparate references together drawing from various aspects of her lived experience, identity, memory and homeplace such as pre-Christian Celtic imagery and folklore, queer counterculture, 70/80s pop culture, psyche and various meditative and visualisation practices which create a central context for what she does.  Works are often combined and arranged to create uncanny 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.