Liza Kelly

Biography

Liza Kelly is a Dublin-based visual artist. She is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, TU Dublin, and Royal Drawing School, London. She regularly exhibits in Ireland and internationally including at the Royal Academy (London), the Royal Hibernian Academy and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London). She is the recipient of awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Royal Drawing School, and was selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Drawing Prize and the Sir William Orpen Self-Portrait Prize. Her work is held in private collections in Ireland and internationally and in the King’s Collection, UK.

Statement

Liza Kelly explores memory and the history of places and objects in her work using a mix of observation and imagination. She thinks about themes of home, place, presence and absence, leading to the creation of playful, whimsical, sometimes uncanny imagery. Her work spans figuration, interior studies, still life, and landscape, sometimes woven with references from history. Liza works primarily with collagraph and monotype methods and enjoys the unpredictability of these processes. She often works with recycled Tetra Pak packaging materials to produce mixed-method drypoint and collagraph prints.