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Gerard Kelly

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I have often felt that while I am carving the stone that I am involved in a conversation with the stone, and through this dialogue between myself and the medium we arrive at a compromise of form. This piece [below] is about identity, and about carving. It exhibits all the indexical marks that demonstrate the carving technique employed, and it forms a letter "I". It is about my education and indoctrination into a Western esthetic of art. It is in many ways a self portrait.

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David's Eye
Carrara marble and steel I-beam
(2 metres tall x 300 mm x 100 mm)



Born: Mooring Cove, Marystown, NL 

Living: Peru

EDUCATION:
Master of Fine Art, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (2012)
Diploma in Woodworking Technology, College of the North Atlantic Burin, NL (1996)
Bachelor of Fine Art, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design Halifax, NS(1985)
Diploma of Applied Art in Fine Art, West Viking College Stephenville, NL(1982)

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:
  • 2013 Ebb and Flow, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL
  • 2012 Wabi Sabi, East meets West, FAB Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta
  • 2008 Self Realized, Arts and Culture Center, Gander, NL
  • 2007 Self Realized, Arts and Culture Centers, Corner Brook and Stephenville, NL
  • 2006 Worry, Contentment, World Trade Center, Halifax, NS
  • 2005 Selected Works, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL
  • 2003 Washed Up FURDER, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL
  • 2002 Washed Up, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL
  • 2001 Conversations with the Goddess, ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
  • 2000 Artifactual Artifices, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL
  • 1999 In the Temple of the Goddess, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL
  • 1985 Three Pieces of Art, Resource Center for the Arts Gallery, LSPU Hall, St. John’s , NL
 
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:
Luminaire, Cape Breton, NS, 2013
Kingsbrae Sculpture Garden, St. Andrew's, NB, 2013, 2009
Art By Instruction, Eastern Edge Gallery, NL 2013
Artist for Peace Action, India, The Balkans (2011), Bosnia-Herzegovina (2010), Istanbul, Turkey (2009)
International Environmental Art Symposium, "Zone Zero-Gallikos River", Kilkis, Greece, 2009
ASCS, Group Show, Inverness Arts Center, NS, 2005
Containment, Vessels and Goddess, Arts and Culture Center, Corner Brook, NL 2001
Staff, Faculty Exhibit, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College Gallery, Corner Brook, NL, 2001
Wood, The Beauty of Objects, Art Gallery of NL; Phoenix Park Visitor Center, Dublin, Ireland; Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland; Waterford Art Gallery, Ireland 2000
No Fishing, Resource Center for the Arts Gallery, LSPU Hall, St. John’s, NL 1991
Notions of the River, Gallery Connection, Fredericton, NB 1989
Uncharted Terrain, Windrush Gallery, Saint John, NB 1987
Myth-Guided Youth, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, NS 1986
 
COLLECTIONS :
Provincial Art Bank Newfoundland & Labrador,
Kilkis Prefecture, Kilkis, Greece
ARTsPLACE Gallery, Annapolis Royal, NS
The Sculpture Forum, La Have, NS
 
Private Collections including: San Francesco,US; Istanbul, Turkey; Corner Brook, NL; East Dover, NS; Terence Bay, NS; St. John’s, NL; London, England