LAURA KELLY
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
2022
2017

2012                        

2008
           
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co Mayo, Ireland.
Shouty Snow Echo, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Fleeting, 126 Gallery, Galway City, Co Galway, Ireland.

Selected for On the Line Project funded by an Arts Council Project Award.
Prospect, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland.
Prospect II, The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland.
A Point Faraway, Talbot Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
2020


2019
2017

2016

2015


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2012

2010
2009

2008
2007

2006

2005

2004

(1989 - 2004)
1987


1986


NGXX, 20th Anniversary Show, The Naughton Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2020 Visions at The Nunnery, The Nunnery Gallery, Bow Arts, London, UK

     -Selected by Hetain Patel, Tessa Garland, Sophie Hill & Kamila Kuc.
While You Were Out..., Vermont Studio Center Alumni, Johnson, Vermont, USA.
Pallas Re-Assembled, Pallas Studios Artists, The Octagon Room, Irish Georgian Society, Dublin, Ireland.
Peripheries Open 2017, Periphery Space, Gorey, Co Wexford, Ireland.
     -Selected by Paul Carter, James Merrigan and Emma Roche.
Outpost Studios Group Show, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Late Winter Residency Group Show, Project Space, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) Show, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

HOME - dlr Open Submission, Municipal Gallery, dlr Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
.

     -Selected by Mark St John Ellis, Director nag Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
Rua Red Winter Open Submission, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Dublin 24, Ireland.
     -
Curated by Jennie Guy (Mobile Art School), Cliodhna Shaffrey (Temple Bar Gallery and Studios) and Matthew Nevin (MART).                   
Hexagon, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) Show, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Expansive Traces,
Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland.

    -Ormston House & Catalyst Arts Members’ Show curated by Eimear Redmond
Rua Red Winter Open Submission, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Dublin 24, Ireland.
Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) Show, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland.                       
COE ‘13, Claremorris, Co Mayo, Ireland.
      -Selected by Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern Art and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.                
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, England.
Open Exhibition 2013,  Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
      -Selected by Patrick Hickey,  Director of Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).                       
dlr Open Submission Exhibition, Concourse, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland.
      -Selected by Tara Murphy, Director of Solomon Gallery, Dublin for DLR Arts Office.
Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) Show, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland                       
Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland.
Public Gesture, The Lab, Foley St, Dublin, Ireland.
Shortlisted for RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, England.
Public Gesture, The Lab, Foley St, Dublin, Ireland.
Royal Ulster Academy (RUA) Show, Titanic Offices, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Treat 07, Talbot Gallery Group Show, Talbot St, Dublin, Ireland.
Attraction, Talbot Gallery Group Summer Show, Talbot St, Dublin, Ireland.
Talbot Gallery Group Show, Talbot St, Dublin, Ireland.
RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London, England.

2005 Mermaid Greenstar Open Exhibition, Mermaid Arts Centre.
     -Curated exhibition at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow,
Ireland.
Nurture Exhibition, Tallaght Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.

     -Exhibition curated by Hospital Arts Officer and selected panel.
(Studying/working full-time in animation/multimedia)
S.A.D.E (Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition), Crawford Gallery, Cork, Ireland.
     -Selected by Peter Murray, Director, to make a wall drawing (approx.10ft x 12ft) on site.
Guinness Peat Aviation (GPA) Awards for Emerging Artists Exhibition, IMMA, Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin, Ireland.
      -Selected by Dorothy Walker.
NCAD Decade Show, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland.
NCAD Degree Show, Kildare St, Dublin, Ireland.

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
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2020

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2015

2014



2013



2011

1988


1987
Agility Award from The Arts Council of Ireland
MART Gallery Residency, Dublin supported by MART Gallery & Studios, Dublin City Council and The Arts Council of Ireland.
Carlow Arts Festival #WedgeFunds Microbursary Award, from Carlow Arts Festival and Carlow Arts Office, Ireland.
Mermaid Arts Centre Gallery Residency, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland.
Covid-19 Crisis Response Award from The Arts Council of Ireland
RHA Microgrant Award, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

Vermont Studio Center Residency, Vermont, USA. Recipient of Artist Award grant.
The Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award, travel bursary to USA.

Firestation Artists' Studios Sculpture Award Residency, Dublin, Ireland.
Professional Development Residency Award, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland.
Artist Support Award, Wicklow County Council Arts Office, Ireland.

The Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award, travel bursary to Canada.
Banff Artist in Residence Winter Intensive, The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
- recipient of Jim Dinning and Evelyn Main Scholarship for Visual Arts.
The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, London, UK - shortlisted Final Judging Round.

Live Art Development Agency UK DIY 13 - Stephen Hodge ‘T(r)ipping points: the architect-walker and
the de-stabilised city’/Create Ireland
-  selected for participation in 2-day project in Dublin, Ireland.

Artist Individual Bursary, Wicklow County Council, Ireland.
RHA Studio Residency Award, Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin, Ireland.
Hexagon Print Residency at Cork Printmakers, Cork, Ireland
Group Residency at The Guesthouse, Cork, Ireland.

Wicklow County Council Group Bursary Award, Ireland.
Trilogik G(Art)bage Workshop, Marseille, France.

Artslink Individual Bursary Award, Wicklow Co Council Arts Office, Ireland.
Group Bursary Award (The Tellurometer Project), Wicklow Co Council Arts Office, Ireland.

Wicklow Research Group Participant
                    Led by Cliodhna Shaffrey and Eilis Lavelle 
Artlinks Selected Mentoring Programme, Wicklow County Council
Arts Office.
                    Led by Cliodhna Shaffrey.

Arts Council Artist-in-Schools scheme, Dublin, Ireland.
Individual Bursary from Crawford Gallery, Cork & Faber Castell to produce a wall drawing.
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency, Annaghmakerrig, Co Monaghan.



EDUCATION
2011  -   2012         
2009  - 2010         
1989  -  1991          
                               
                               

1981  -  1986
1977  -  1980          

Diploma in Digital Media Production, Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT), Dublin, Ireland.
MA in Visual Arts Practice, Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT), Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland.
Euro MA ISCA (Image Synthesis & Computer Animation)
                                 - Middlesex University (formerly Polytechnic), Middlesex, England.
                                 - Utrecht School of Art,  Hilversum, Netherlands.
                                 - Centre National de la Bande Dessinée et de l’Image (CNBDI), Angoulême, France.
BA Degree in Fine Art (Painting), National College of Art & Design (NCAD), Dublin, Ireland.
BA Degree in Natural Sciences (Zoology & Psychology), University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. 


Work held in public collections including  Office of Public Works (OPW), Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, Wicklow County Council, Tallaght University Hospital; and in private collections in Ireland and the UK.
email: laurakellyartist@gmail.com
©2008-2023 LAURA KELLY

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