www.kellyrichardson.net

126 with the Galway Film Fleadh presents:

TWILIGHT AVENGER
Video works by Kelly Richardson

July 7th through July 12th, 2009
Opening reception: Wednesday July 8th, 8pm.
After-party at Bar No. 8
Galway, Ireland

There will be a one-on-one artist talk between Richardson and Galway based director and writer Katherine Waugh, Wednesday July 8th at 126 from 7-8pm

Kelly Richardson will be showing two video works, Twilight Avenger and Wagons Roll, in a dual screen installation at 126’s new city centre gallery.

Kelly Richardson’s primary interest is in exploring simultaneity, affect and the use of cinematic language to create part real /part imagined landscapes, offering visual metaphors for modern ‘reality’, a wavering hybrid of fact and fiction. With an interest in creating contemplative spaces loaded with double meanings, the work explores notions of simultaneity as a way of summating feelings associated with the hugely complicated world we have created for ourselves; magnificent and equally dreadful. Richardson questions our place in the world, with allusions to political, cultural, societal and environmental issues and points to something greater than ourselves.

Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, Canada in 1972. She studied fine art at the Ontario College of Art & Design (AOCAD with honours) and media studies at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (MFA studies). Her works have been exhibited internationally at various venues including the Sundance Film Festival, USA (2009), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Quebec (2009), Busan Biennale, Korea (2008), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, USA (2008), Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Canada (2007), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK (2005), Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2004), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2002-2003) and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2002). Her work was recently acquired by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (Montréal, Canada) and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington DC, USA). She was long listed for Canada’s pre-eminent prize for contemporary art, the Sobeys Art Award two years running (2008 and 2009) and will be the featured artist for this years Americans for the Arts National Arts Award held in New York City. She lives and works in the United Kingdom.