About
Based between Dublin & Rotterdam.
I am a visual artist working across a variety of textile processes. My practice looks at the intricacies and nuances of relationships and how our environments shape our interactions and treatments of each other. I examine emotions that come into existence in the space between two people: love, lust, desire, attachment, hatred and betrayal. My research is practice led, with materials and processes often informing the work, alongside archival and contemporary pop-culture visuals. Through soft sculpture processes such as sewing, tufting, embroidery, appliqué and felting, I look for the place between opposites where there is conflict or harmony. I use bright colours, a variety of textures, striking patterns and bold shapes to evoke a feeling of play and create vibrant commentaries on relationships and the spaces in which they exist. :))))
email: orlamkelly22@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2023
End of Year Ball: Second edition
Group show
The Workman's Cellar, Dublin
2023
Counterbodies: Fourth edition
Group show
De Achtertuin, Rotterdam
2023
The Tiny Art Gallery #3
Group show
Posta Space, Sofia, Bulgaria
2022
End of Year Ball: First edition
Group show
The Workman's Cellar, Dublin
2022
On the Horizon
Group show
Rascals Brewery, Inchicore
2022
Touch Base
Group show
Fegans 1924, Dublin
2022
All Fools Exhibition
Group show
Block T, Dublin
2022
You breath differently down here
Group show
Draíocht Gallery, Blanchardstown
2021
RDS Visual Arts Awards
RHA Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2021
Culture Night Exhibition
First Day Gallery
Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
2021
Not Finals
Group show
Pleasants Place, Dublin
2020
ArtEZ BEAR
Summershow Magazine
Arnhem, Netherlands
2020
Nodder
Group publication in collaboration with Radboud University
Nijmegan, Netherlands
2019
White Noise
Group show
Inspire Gallery
Gardiner Street, Dublin
Features
2024
YummyColours Concept of the year Publication:‘Its so fucking hard to be a squirrel these days’,
Featured drawing ‘Forcing you to hold my hand’
2022
Clancy Quay Professional Development Programme publication
Professional Development programme Zine
2022
Best young Irish Talent: 50 people to watch in 2022
Feature in the Irish Times
2022
Moate artist is tipped as "one to watch" in 2022
The Westmeath Independent
2021
Envisioning: RDS Visual Art Awards
Totally Dublin
2021
Envisioning: RDS Visual Art Awards
The Outpost
2021
New Generation Gallery feature
Irish Arts Review
Awards
2024
2024 Creative Ireland Westmeath Community Grant
2022
Recipient of Making & Momentum Young Artist Grant.
2022
Recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award.
Education
2017
- 2021
BA (Hons) in Fine Art (International) with Critical Cultures
National College of Art and Design
First Class Honours
2019
- 2020
Fine Art: Base for Experiment, Art & Research, ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2021
- 2022
Clancy Quay, Superprojects and Project Arts Centre Professional Development Programme.
Workshops
2024
& 2023
Repurpose & Relove Workshop
Primark stores across Dublin, Belfast, Galway and Cork
2024
& 2023
Embroider & Upcycle Workshop
Primark stores across Dublin, Belfast, Galway and Cork
2023
Upcycling Workshop: Collaging through Textiles
Benthemstraat, Rotterdam
About
Based between Dublin & Rotterdam.
I am a visual artist working across a variety of textile processes. My practice looks at the intricacies and nuances of relationships and how our environments shape our interactions and treatments of each other. I examine emotions that come into existence in the space between two people: love, lust, desire, attachment, hatred and betrayal. My research is practice led, with materials and processes often informing the work, alongside archival and contemporary pop-culture visuals. Through soft sculpture processes such as sewing, tufting, embroidery, appliqué and felting, I look for the place between opposites where there is conflict or harmony. I use bright colours, a variety of textures, striking patterns and bold shapes to evoke a feeling of play and create vibrant commentaries on relationships and the spaces in which they exist. :))))
email: orlamkelly22@gmail.com
