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Patricia Kelly
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Patricia lives in Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. She attended the Art college at Ulster University in Belfast where she obtained a B.A. Honors degree in Fine Craft Design, specializing in embroidered textiles. Patricia has been ever inspired by the changing colour, light and texture of the rugged landscape and skies in the west of Ireland. Growing up on a farm, she was involved in the landscape in a very physical and tactile way, making hay and stacking turf. She attributes this experience to the very earthy, textural and repetitive quality of the work she produces today.
Patricia constantly pushes her work in new directions exploring images through drawing and paint, but finally realising her outcomes through the medium of textile, employing the use of free motion embroidery techniques. Patricia’s work has become much more abstract in recent times with a greater focus on the use of the stitched line. The repetitive use of shape and mark has become an increasingly important aspect of Patricia’s work imbuing a meditative and ethereal quality.
While her work presents an extensive, yet highly selective visual and tactile feast, it is restrained in a most sublime way. Marks, transparencies and opacities are beautifully suggestive and satisfying. As the light changes, pieces shift, breathe and alter. Patricia constantly challenges herself through her work, seeking that which truly satisfies. Her work is an investigatory process deepening and elucidating her thought process.
GROUP AND SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022
Amelie Maison d’art, Paris, selected textile art
2021
Fibre: Structure and Surface, Gallery 57 Contemporary art, West Sussex
Art in your pocket, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
RCC Culture Night Letterkenny
Art in Mind, Brick Lane Gallery, London
The Paper Bag Show, Cross Gallery, Bundaberg, Australia
2020-2022
The Drawing Box International Touring Exhibition
2020
The Drawing Box, digital platform for the Arts during Covid-19
2019
Nine Walls, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
The Millrace Gallery, Dublin
2019-2022
Incognito, fundraiser, Solomon, Dublin and Lavit, Gallery, Cork
2018 - 2019
Invited artist, “Run” Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
2018 - 2020
Hambly and Hambly, Enniskillen
2017
Boyle Arts Festival. “Facing West”
Loughs, Bogs and Mountains, Castle Museum, Enniskillen FLIVE
2016
Full circle Gallery, Castle Museum, Enniskillen
2011 - 2016
Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen
2011 - 2014
Cavehill Gallery, Belfast
2009-2014
Mc Kenna Gallery Omagh
2004 - 2012
Parvis, Lisburn
2012
“Interwoven” selected textile show, Chapel Gallery, Lancashire
All Dressed Up” Enniskillen Castle Museum
2010
RUA Annual exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Sacred Project, with selected works from ACNI, IMMA, Enniskillen
2004 - 2010
Castleupton Gallery, Templepatrick
The Carlinn Gallery, Carlingford
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton
2000 - 2006
Greenlane Gallery, Dingle
2003
The Basement Gallery, Enniskillen
SOLO SHOWS
2022
Solo Show, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
2021
Ards Art Centre, Ards and North Down Borough Council
2018
Fermanagh Trust House, Enniskillen
2017
Waterways Ireland, Enniskillen FLIVE
2010
Inspire Gallery, Dublin
The Waterside Theatre, Derry
2009
Iontas Theatre Gallery, Castleblaney
The Alley Theatre and Arts Centre, Strabane
The Grand Opera House, Belfast
Market House Gallery, Mullingar
The Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen
2008
The Carlinn Gallery, Carlingford,
2007
The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
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