Sara Kelly’s practice moves between constructed objects and photographic images, using the camera as a way of thinking through painting and sculpture. Her work involves a dialogue between 2D and 3D forms, and between paint, collage, photography and found objects.
Through photographic prints and object-based constructions, her work is concerned with the translation between image and object, material presence and illusion, and the construction of pictorial space.
Inspired by the illusionist spaces of theatre where ‘reality’ can be distilled and designed, Kelly brings theatrical devices into her work, such as the play of light and scale. She creates vessels for narrative, often suggesting theatrical or architectural spaces.
Kelly’s painting-collages operate as temporary structures, with photographic prints functioning as traces of these constructed arrangements
Kelly holds an MA in Design for Interactive Media and studied with Turps Banana, UK, on their correspondence course. Kelly has participated in various group shows, including The Feminist Library London, Testbed Gallery, London, Triangle Space, London, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London and a solo show at Five Years, London.
Through photographic prints and object-based constructions, her work is concerned with the translation between image and object, material presence and illusion, and the construction of pictorial space.
Inspired by the illusionist spaces of theatre where ‘reality’ can be distilled and designed, Kelly brings theatrical devices into her work, such as the play of light and scale. She creates vessels for narrative, often suggesting theatrical or architectural spaces.
Kelly’s painting-collages operate as temporary structures, with photographic prints functioning as traces of these constructed arrangements
Kelly holds an MA in Design for Interactive Media and studied with Turps Banana, UK, on their correspondence course. Kelly has participated in various group shows, including The Feminist Library London, Testbed Gallery, London, Triangle Space, London, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London and a solo show at Five Years, London.
