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EDUCATION
Master of Arts, Wimbledon School of Art, London
Bachelor of Education Honours Degree, Bristol Polytechnic
PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Atlantis Paper Company
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ireland
BP Europe, Brussels
National Gallery of Canada Library, Canada
The British Library, UK. Hardware Gallery artists books collection (1986-2003)
Covington & Burling, UK
Charing Cross Hospital, London
Kings College School, London
Lawrence Graham, London
LBC, London
Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
Museu da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, USA
NIVAL, Dublin, Ireland,
October Films, London, UK
Sedgewick Group International, UK
Tate Gallery Library, London, UK
Tate Archive, Tate Britain, UK, 2021 Hardware Gallery archives (1986-2003)
The Sketchbook Project, Brooklyn NY, USA
University of Leeds Library, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK,
COMMISSIONS
Broosistan, Brussels
Equitable House Ltd, UK
Editorial Nascimento, Chile, UK
Reuters Ltd, UK
AWARDS
Companion of the Guild of St George, 2021
British Council / Museu da Gravura, Brazil 1994
Whatman Paper Prize 1988
Atlantis Paper Purchase Prize 1987
Sericol Purchase Prize 1986
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Fragile STORIES’ Mandy Bonnell & Deirdre Kelly, Burano Lace Museum, Venice, Italy
2024 Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, 194th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2024 ‘By the Means at Hand‘, Vlatka Horvat, Croatian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
2024 ‘The Lie of the Land’ Carolyn Curtis Magri & Deirdre Kelly, The Whitaker Museum & Art Gallery, UK
2023 Thread – Fabric – Paper, Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria
2023 ‘The Name of the Water’ Karen Daye-Hutchinson & Deirdre Kelly, ArtisAnn, Belfast, Ireland
2023 M A P P I N G, Galerie Druck & Buch, Vienna, Austria
2023, Charta Picta, Vas – Venezia, Cartiera di Vas, Quero, and Venice, Italy
2023 ‘Tracery’ The Blue Gallery Brantwood House, Lake District, UK
2023 ‘Changing Landscapes’ DARS Museo di Santa Chiara, Gorizia, Italy
2023 ‘Shifting Borders’ Treasures of the Brotherton Gallery, Leeds, UK
2022 Mediterraneum project Istanbul, Marseilles, Manduria
2022 ‘Home to Where the Heart is’ – Mayo Day Castlebar, Ireland
2022 ‘Sussurrato tra le Pieghe e I Punti’, Palazzo Beltramini Asolo, Italia
2022 ‘SEMINAL’ SGgallery Venice, Italy
2021 ‘Remapped’, Weiss Villa, Biorama-Projekt, Joachimsthal, Germany
2021 ‘Paper Boats’ LA Printmaking Society, Museum of Art, Fort Worth Colorado, USA
2021 ‘Islands’ Project with Nuala Clarke, Ballinglen Arts Foundation Education Programme, Ireland
2021 ‘Paint 2021’ Invited artist, Silvermine Galleries, Connecticut, USA
2020 ‘Dimension of Identity’ Changsha, China
2020 ‘Still Utopia: Islands’ Gallery MC, New York, USA
2020 ‘Tip Off’ On Paper Supreme Qingdao Tiantai Art Center, China
2020 ‘Back Soon (but Better)’ We are Here Venice, Italy
2020 ‘Unlocked” Martano, Puglia, Italy
2020 ‘Water: works on paper’ Artery Melbourne, Australia
2018 ‘Made of Mayo’, Ballinrobe, Ireland
2017 ‘No Turning Back’ Migrations Museum Project, London, UK
2017 ‘Migrations’ Eagle Gallery, London
2016 ‘Leporelli Veneziani’ Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy
2016 ‘Imago Mundi’ representing Ireland for Luciano Benetton collection
2015 ‘Broosistan’ special commission for nomadic country visiting Venice
2015 ‘Map Room: Tra due element sospesa’, SG gallery, Venice, Italy
2014 ‘Not to be Used for Navigation’, SG gallery, Venice, Italy
2013 ‘Off the Map’, Alba, London
2012 ‘Reincarnation’, London Print Studio, UK
2012 ‘Civilizing the Wilderness’ Eigse, Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland
2003 ‘Mappa Mundi’, Lawrence Graham, London
2002 Galerie Luc Queryel, Paris
2001 Dean Clough, Halifax
1996 Galerie Luc Queryel, Paris
1996 The Brahm Gallery, Leeds
1996 Harriet Green Gallery, London
1993 New Academy Gallery, London
1987 Intaglio Gallery, London
RESIDENCIES
2011- ongoing Resident Artist, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica Venezia, Italy
2012 & 2013 & 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, North Mayo, Ireland
2002 Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
1994 British Council Award, Resident Artist exchange, Museu da Gravura, Curitba, Brazil
PUBLICATIONS
‘A Walk Past Standing Heads’ Wild Pansy Press 2016
‘Meeting of the Waters’ Wild Pansy Press 2016
‘Islands & Bridges’ Wild Pansy Press 2009
‘Maria’ Wild Pansy Press 2000
BIBLIOGRAPHY
‘Cose da Donne’ Elena Dall’orso, exhibition review ‘Fragile Stories’, Architectural Digest Italia, September 2024
‘Ethereal lace’, Manuela De Leonardis, newspaper article, Alias/il manifesto, 3 August 2024
‘Le delicate storie scritte dai merletti di Bonnell e Kelly’ newspaper article, il Gazzettino, 15 June 2024
‘TRACERY Venice & the Lakes Interlaced’ catalogue published, Brantwood Trust & Wild Pansy Press 2023.
‘Venetians’, Carlo Mion, newspaper article, La Nuova di Venezia e Mestre 16 May 2022
‘Contemporary Identities’ International Art Magazine, Issue 12, 2021
‘Remapped’ video 3.00 Ivan Crosatto & Piero Giacon, 2021
‘Spitze auf Backstein’ newspaper article, Kultur regional, Mittwoch 28,07,2021
‘By our echoes we chart a new geography’ article Ian McKay, Art North Magazine 2021
‘Déirdre Kelly Artist based in Venice’ Documentary by Emanuele Confortin 2020
“Outlook” D – Repubblica Magazine May 2020
‘Aqua Poetica’ Imprint Magazine Print Council of Australia Nick Chlivers, 2020
‘The Telegraph Newspaper’ 2018
‘The Irish Times Magazine’ Manchán Magan 2016
Mapping, Jeremy Crampton, Wiley-Blackwell 2010
Art Monthly, September 2001
Segundo Caderno, Brazil, September 2000
Galleries, August 2000
Arts Review, August 2000
Watch Art Start, BBC, 1998
Tele Venezia, Italian Arts TV Programme 1992
Artists Newletter, 1991
Watercolours, Drawings & Prints, 1991
CURATORIAL
SG Gallery, SIG, Venice 2009 – ongoing
London Print Studio Gallery, 1998-2000
Hardware Gallery, London, 1985-2003
Tate Gallery Archive acquired Hardware Gallery 1985- 2003 Archive 2021, UK
British Library acquired Hardware Gallery Artists Books Collection 2021, UK
GUEST SPEAKER
‘Tracing Ruskin’s Threads’ with Rachel Dickinson Ruskin Conference, Ca’ Foscari, Venice 2023
‘TRACERY Venice & the Lakes Interlaced’ Circolo Britannico, Venice 2023.
‘non identitá’, Accademia di Brera, MIlan 2021,
‘Pagine d’arte’, Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna 2015,
Fondazione di Bevilaqua la Masa, Venice 2011,
‘Impact’ Conference, University of West of England 2001,
‘Book to Basics’ Conference, Dean Clough Halifax 1998,
Artists Books Conference,Tate Gallery London 1995
& at many universities including Winchester School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art, Brighton University, UCAD Ireland & Royal College of Art, London,
Lives and works in Venice, Italy
E MAIL deirdrekelly2012@gmail.com
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