I am a Dublin based Visual Artist. I use textiles, paint, colouring pencils, pastels, and ceramics to create vibrant, humorous, pattern-filled and often deceptively playful reflections on my own realities. My work examines contradicting qualities within my relationships; familial, romantic, and platonic. I playfully consider the line dividing beauty and disaster, and appreciate the qualities of what’s seen or accepted as unappealing. I’m interested in questioning how we show love, lust, care, intimacy, aggression, and disgust and how these seemingly opposing emotions are interconnected. I like to observe and explore how we impose these feelings on each other and on the things around us.
email: orlamkelly22@gmail.com
2022
End of Year Ball
Group show
The Circus Room, 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
2021
NCAD Works
Grad show
Online exhibition
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
2018
First Year Art & Design Studies Exhibition
National College of Art and Design
Thomas Streed, Dublin
2022
Clancy Quay Professional Development Programme publication
Feature in The Irish Times
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
New Generation Gallery feature
Irish Arts Review
2022
Recipient of Making & Momentum Youn Artist Grant.
2022
Recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award.
2021 - 2022
Clancy Quay, Superprojects and Project Arts Centre Professional Development Programme.
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