ANGELA O'KELLY
JEWELLER
Born in Dublin in 1973, Angela O’Kelly studied Jewellery and Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art and graduated with a Degree and Postgraduate Diploma in 1998.
O’Kelly is a designer maker whose work crosses the boundaries of jewellery, textiles and sculpture. She combines paper with mixed media using a variety of traditional and non-traditional textile and jewellery techniques. Inspiration derives from a fascination with simple shapes, textures, repetition and colour in urban and rural landscapes.
O’Kelly has exhibited extensively in international exhibitions and galleries. Her work can be seen in many private collections and in the public collections of the British Crafts Council, London; the Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; the Museum of Art and Design, New York; the Cleveland Arts Centre International Jewellery Collection, Cleveland; the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin and the Office of Public Works Collection, Dublin.
Since 1998 O’Kelly has lectured part time in the textile and jewellery departments of the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin and Edinburgh College of Art. She has curated contemporary craft exhibitions in the UK and Ireland; Texture for the Hub Gallery, UK in 2004; Playthings and Wearable/Unwearable for the Crafts Council of Ireland in 2005. O’Kelly is the Craft-Curator for Kilkenny Arts Festival 2009/2010.
Coolmine
Saggart
Co. Dublin
+353 (0) 1 401 3899
angela_o_kelly@hotmail.com
www.angelaokelly.com
Lesley Craze Gallery, London, UK;
The Shirin Guild Store, London, UK;
Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland;
Mobilia Gallery, Massachusetts, USA;
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, USA;
Charon Kransen Arts, New York, USA.
Work available through exhibitions
nationally and internationally.
Image 2: Neckpiece; round pink, red, platinum leaf. Felt, paper, platinum leaf, stainless steel wire. 38cm x 7cm (D x H).