Snow Falling, Mary A. Kelly

limited edition of 50 prints
Giclee Fine Art Print
unframed, 90 x 90 cm

Mary A. Kelly is an artist living and working in Wicklow, Ireland. She has worked extensively with lens based media and installation and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including New York, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Helsinki and Brussels. She is the recipient of many awards including Irish American Arts Award, New York 2006 and Student of the Year Award 1998. She has a Psychology and Philosophy degree from UCD, 1977, fine art and film degrees from IADT, Dun Laoghaire and an M.A. Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, 2003.

Mary A Kelly won this year’s Royal College of Surgeons Art Award for her painting titled Add and subtract the marks, poke my fingers and even my head all the way through. Her winning painting focuses on a chair as a physical object, to spark a conversation about relationships with people, objects and self. It was selected from more than 500 works on display at the 189th RHA Annual Exhibition 2019.