About

Kat Kelly is an artist based in Cork, Ireland.  Working in collage, assemblage, sculpture, mark-making, text and installation; their practice works to explore ideas relating to loss, otherness, fragmentation and wildness; as a means to navigate their own personal emotional and psychic landscape as well as broader cultural narratives.  Disparate references are brought together drawing from various aspects of their lived experience, identity, memory and rural homeplace such as; Irish visual language and folklore, folk religion, queer counterculture, pop culture and psychoanalysis which create a central context for what they do.  Themes are explored and expressed through methods of material process, fictional imaginings and emotive impulses that seek to evoke the otherworldly, uncanny, the ritualistic and the poetic. 

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