Tracery Bookworks

Kelly has engaged in an intimate virtual dialogue with the lace-makers of Venice’s past, via privileged access to the historic Venetian lace collections, resulting in a series of works that manipulates cartography, using the aesthetic language of lace.

A number of bookworks, testify to this research; translations, interpretations and reiterations of the dynamics of looking at map and ‘reading’ lace.

Lace lexicon 2020 20cm x 11.2cm x 123cm
Point Line Intersection 2021 14cm x 18cm
Notes on Lace and Map assorted notebooks 2018/2021 9 x 14 cm
Lace Legenda : Punto Terra 2020 13.5cm x 18.5cm

Lace Legenda: Punto Terra
2020
Unique hand bound book
Collage & drawing on found map and Mylar
13.5cm x 18.5cm

Lace Lexicon
Unique leperello
2020
Found map cut out and collage
20cm x 11.2cm x 123cm

Wind Rose Point
2020
Unique book
Japanese binding
Collage, print & drawing on nautical map, paper, labels, scrim
15cm x 21cm

Point Line Intersection
2021
Unique hand bound book
48 pages
Collage, cut out & watercolour on found map, Mylar and found papers
14cm x 18cm

Déirdre Kelly

Books

TRACERY BOOKWORKS