Fiona’s dust works impress
FIONA KELLY’S exhibition ‘ The Dirt That Measures All Our Time’ opened last Thursday.
The exhibition, which runs at the Mermaid Arts Centre until August 18, was opened by Valerie Byrne, director of the National Sculpture Factory.
Fiona Kelly’s current practice is driven by a contemplation of what has been lost and the transience of things. Her visual outputs have been informed by the common material – dust. She uses dust both materially and theoretically, as a means to explore man’s interaction with the built environment and the natural world.
Akin to the architectural movement of Bricolage, where the Bricoleur rebuilds using the debris of previous events, Fiona has foraged and utilised materials in a state of rejection to construct fables for the present. The exhibition includes a newly-commissioned text by Chris Clarke, Curator of the Glucksman Gallery
Fiona holds a MA from the Crawford College of Art and Design. Her research thesis and accompanying exhibition was ‘ thee Distillation of Dust’.