Maria Kelly
Colour, light and video projection are integral to my practice. I find synchronicity in patterns intertwined in everyday living which I often translate into my art. The immersive installation I create requires audience participation and allows them to feel a heightened awareness and body consciousness, also known as proprioception. In the space they encounter others and through the use of using binaural sound in the work it creates an over stimulation of the mind and enlightens the senses.
Sensory details such as touch, sight and smell are all important in my practice, I value audience participation and their reaction highly and take all into consideration when curating a piece of work. My research consists of opening up a line of enquiry about the aesthetic components of a work and also the therapeutic benefits of art, how the work can take you out of your everyday mundane reality and be absorbed not necessarily by an art expert but also by the casual gallery goer. Works such as ‘Lumia’ reference club culture and being enthralled in your surroundings. The idea of creating an experience through art is important to my practice and colour as an overwhelming aspect to an installation interests me.
My research into colour and its importance in contemporary art has been valuable to my work and contextualising how I make everything. The films made can be seen as an intensification of colour.

Lumia

Video projection, installation

1 min 06 sec
EXHIBITIONS / ARTWORK
“Sitting room” (Exhibited alongside Dave Stephens, Anne Bean and Lewis Robinson)
Phoenix Joint Exhibition
February 17th – March 18th 2018

“Conjecture”
University of Brighton Second Year Exhibition
February 2nd – 14th 2018

“Tickle me”
University of Brighton first year exhibition
June 6th – 10th 2017

“Gender”
LungA Arts Festival, Seyoisfjordur, Iceland
11th- 23rd July 2018