COLD WAVE

Anthony Kelly


3 Feb - 25 March :: Triskel Christchurch

ANTHONY KELLY IN CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST JAY ROCHE
THURS 16 FEB - 6PM - FREE

Anthony Kelly was born in Dublin, Ireland, and studied at Dún Laoghaire College of Art and Design (now IADT), graduating with a Distinction in Fine Art. He works in a variety of media that include painting, printmaking, sound, video and performance. Although diverse in construction, his work chiefly concentrates on the shifting and fragmentary nature of sensory experience. To explore this he uses the discarded or overlooked aspects of the world around us, which he enlarges and amplifies to create his work.

Kelly’s raw material is often the mundane or the discarded, fragments of old photocopies or the background noise on a field recording. Like much contemporary artwork there is no 'hierarchy to hierarchy' in his choice of medium and he sees no difference in relevance between more traditional artforms and more recent lens-based or electronic media. Often his paintings and prints are informed by the results of a film or sound experiment. Likewise the textures of paint or intaglio can inform the quality of the image in a film or video piece. The process of making his paintings explores the use of all surfaces, using varying types of paint finish - matte to absorb light, shiny to reflect it.

Painting forms an important platform for much of Kelly’s practice, often serving as a primary catalyst for ideas. It is often in his painting and drawing that Kelly can best explore and exploit, in a particularly immediate way, the unprecedented and the unexpected. The materials he uses are often of the household variety: mdf, gloss paint, emulsion - allowing him a simple and uncomplicated basis for experimentation. The results of his current show Cold Wave, at the Triskel Arts Centre, are very much an example of this approach.

Anthony Kelly lives and works in Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.