Liza Kelly in her Artist's Studio

Liza Kelly is a visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her practice threads together ideas on memory, place, and history exploring these themes through interior studies, still life, portrait and landscape. She uses a variety of resources in her work; observational and imaginative drawing, remembered places and interiors, personal belongings and objects, and references from museum archives and art history.

Liza works frequently with Tetra Pak printmaking to create mixed-method collagraph and drypoint prints. The material is evident in the final images through the inherent lines and folds of the packaging, alluding to architecture, rooms, gables and roofs and adding a patina to the finished work. She works in small editions, often with colour variation in each print, giving each work a unique quality. She also enjoys working with various monotype methods to produce drawn and painted one-off works on paper.

Liza is a graduate of the National College of Art & Design, TU Dublin, and Royal Drawing School, London. She has received funding from the Arts Council of Ireland and has been awarded residencies at Dumfries House, Scotland, and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan. She exhibits extensively in Ireland and internationally including at the RHA, RUA, Royal Academy and Platforms Project Athens. Her work is held in public and private collections.