On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist and educator Mark O'Kelly in 2020.
The studio painting practice at the centre of O’Kelly’s artistic research demonstrates a sustained engagement with theories of materiality, representation, reproduction, display and quotation, towards investigations around questions of cognitive representation and the inherent psychological poetry of the image. The imagined public spaces that result within this architecture of pictures narrate consciousness-formation in the public interaction within contemporary cosmetic image cultures.
Mark O’Kelly lives and works in Dublin and Limerick. He attended the National College of Art and Design and Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Recent selected exhibitions include Dubliners, 6th Biennial of Paintings Zagreb 2021, Ghosts From The Recent Past, Irish Museum Of Modern Art IMMA 2021, Its Very New School, Rua Red 2017, RHA Annual exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Gallagher Gallery, invited artist, 2018.
Collections, Irish Museum of Modern Art, The Arts Council of Ireland, AIB Bank, Bank of Ireland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Athlone Institute of Technology, AXA Insurance, OPW Office of Public Works, Microsoft, Boyle Civic Collection, University College Dublin and Private collections in Ireland, UK and USA.
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