James Kelly
education
2014 MFA Sculpture, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2010 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University College Falmouth
2007 Foundation Studies in Art and Design, University College Falmouth
exhibitions
solo
Lightning Path, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland 5 May - 10 June 2023
as ^ collective
Waking the Land, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland Nov 2025 - Feb 2026
^TEND, Glens Centre and ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland, 2025
Animating the Land, street ritual, Manorhamilton, Ireland, 2024
Benbo Awake, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland Sept 2023
Waking the Land, ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland Aug 2023
selected group
Connections, Boyle Arts Festival main exhibition, King House Boyle, Ireland July - Aug 2023
Winter Embers: Featherheads and Dreamers, The Model, Sligo Ireland Dec 2020
Companion Voyages, (postponed due to Covid-19), Exposed Arts Projects, London UK 2020
Narratives in Making, NDC Gallery, Kilkenny Ireland May - July 2017
Featherheads and Dreamers, The Model, Sligo Ireland April 2016
Polyphonie X, 331 Green Lanes, London October 2015
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London May 2015
Associate Members Show, selected by Adam Chodzko, LIMBO, Margate UK Mar - April 2015
HOIST, 46 Bavaria Road, London Dec 2014
Slade MFA/MA Degree Show Exhibition, The Slade School of Fine Art, London 2014
Second Person Looking Out, UCL Art Museum, London May - June 2014
dəprɛʃ dəprɛst / Slade at the Rock Room, University College London May 2014
In the House: from voyeur(ism) to exhibition(ism), Unit 1 Pride Autos, London Feb 2014
Slade MFA/MA Interim Show, Slade Research Centre, London Oct 2013
Habits, Cleavages and Fractures, The Rock Room, University College London May 2013
Big Dinner, LIMBO, Margate April - May 2013
Bronze lab, UCL Art Museum, London 22nd April 2013
La Tavoglia Macchiata, (The Stained Tablecloth), Céglie Messápica, Italy Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
Millennium Mixed Winter Show, Millennium gallery, St. Ives UK Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Untitled, the Fish Factory, Falmouth UK Dec 2011
Underexposed, PZ Gallery, Penzance UK July 2011
Stone Soup, The Rag Factory, London July 2010
Degree Show, University College Falmouth June - July 2010
Dead Season, LIMBO, the Substation, Margate March 2010
awards
Leitrim Arts Award, 2025
Agility Award, the Arts Council, 2024
Land Securities Studio Award, 2014
Slade Bursary, 2013
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust - Travel to Italy Award, 2010
publications
In Focus VAN, Visual Artists Ireland, issue July/August 2023
Slade Graduate Research, 2014
Moon Jar, exhibition catalogue, 2013
Liam Flynn retrospective and new, exhibition catalogue, 2011
residency, talk, work
Exhibition Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, April - June 2022
Higher Spargo, Mabe, Cornwall, Aug 2015
Bow Arts P1 Studios Residency, (part of the Land Securities Award), London, Aug 2014 - July 2015
Zarakes Residency, Εύβοια, Greece, October 2014
Technical Co-ordinator and video for the Penzance Convention, Cornwall, curated by Teresa Gleadowe and Hadrian Pigott, 2012
film screenings/festivals
Harvest Film Festival, Open School East, London November 2015
Harvest Film Festival, Lower Hewood Farm, Chard UK October 2015
Hidden Channel presents works by James Kelly, The Model, Sligo Ireland May 2015
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland April 2014
Household Contemporary Art Festival, Belfast, Ireland Aug 2012
FIELDCLUB and Friends, Late at Tate, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall November 2011
Polywood,The Poly cinema, Falmouth May 2011
commissioned video works
Aspheric Light, a film for the exhibition ‘Moon Jar: Contemporary Translations in Britain’, Korean Cultural Centre, London, commissioned by KCC June - Aug 2013
Perceiving Method, a film for the exhibition ‘Liam Flynn retrospective and new’, The Hunt Museum, Limerick, commissioned by Eleanor Flegg Nov - Dec 2011