KNOW HER PLACE
At the SVA gallery, Kelly O'Brien will develop KNOW HER PLACE, a two-week residency exploring the intersections of class positioning, gender, and work. Followed by a private view, artist talk and exhibition.
Kelly will explore the myths surrounding the themes, producing and curating new visual works alongside photographs from her personal archive, a collection of images taken over a ten-year period that documents the working class women within her family.
In keeping with Kelly's interests in experimental and participatory curation, she has asked her mother, who she considers a true expert on the topics being explored, to co-curate the final show.
Residency - 11th - 22nd April
Artist Talk - 20th April, 6-7 pm
Private view - Sat 23rd, 5-7 pm
Kelly O’Brien
Artist Bio
Photographer, artist, and educator.
Originally from Derby (East Midlands), Kelly was raised by a single mother in a council house surrounded by a vibrant Irish emigrant community. These people and places influenced her education and also provided the basis for her art practice and research.
Kelly has developed a working methodology that has allowed her to explore visual transformation and storytelling through personal histories and theory. Through her work, she examines how invisibility, immateriality and memory can be used as tools of possibility and perception.
Her work centers on class identity, hidden narratives, politics, and gender. Along with exploring how expanding modes of documentary photography can be used to visually manifest and represent the unseen. Kelly is interested in the possibility of collaboration and participation as well as its impact on her work.
She has received numerous awards and has exhibited and published her work internationally. Kelly works with universities and art institutions in both the UK and internationally as a community arts educator and lecturer in photography.
@kelly.o.brien @a_matter_of_class