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Directed by artist, curator and critic Kellie Miller, KMA gallery offers a unique and original voice. This blog offers our followers the opportunity to delve deeper into our world to discover more about the artists we represent, upcoming exhibition themes and collections, and to join the wider discussion as we explore and reflect on current events shaping the creative world we love so much.
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Clay Paintings
Isabel Merrick’s artistic career spans nearly 30 years. She lives in the Devonshire countryside, close to local coastlines. She is sensitive to seasonal changes and her environment, and both influence her work.
The seasons not only determine her colour palette, but also dictate a rhythm and method of working. She uses the winter months to hunker down in her studio and produce her art—a form of hibernation. Whereas, come the spring and summer months, she is ready to reveal her creations at various exhibitions and events she has planned and to be more social.
Wet Landscapes and Black Butter
Barbara Burns incorporates the Irish landscape in her artworks. She is compelled to return to her roots on the West Coast of Ireland. Whether walking along the coastline or through the countryside, she absorbs the surroundings and constantly explores the relationship between land and sea, from craggy cliffs to soft, rolling landscapes.
Emotional Landscapes
There are multiple, concurrent truths evident in Lesley McInally's works. While she is expressing and producing beauty and nature within her art, there are underlying themes of fragility, anxiety, death and grief.
What Lies Beneath
Helen Nottage's sculptures pay homage to anatomy, one of the oldest scientific disciplines. Anatomy has undergone an evolution from its infancy in the 3rd century, with its subsequent development marked by the introduction of Anatomical Theatres, when dissection became a performance art. Honoré Fragonard in the 18th century even rendered his specimens into artefacts.
Northern Sky
Kate Wickham’s paintings gravitate to the North, where she was born. Her work examines the industrial history of Yorkshire, highlighting its notable contributions to Britain’s industrial success in steel, coal, and textiles.
A Riot of Colour
Moira Hazel's compositions explore the interplay between abstraction and reality, reimagining the world around her through dynamic patterns and forms. She draws inspiration from the textures and rhythms of nature—landscapes, plants, reflections, rock formations, and even the shapes of buildings or pieces of fabric.
One of those Days
Elizabeth Price’s characterful sculptures are highly sought-after and collected worldwide. Her figures are predominantly female, with an occasional signature male figure accompanying her ladies as a support act.
In the Eye of the Beholder
As a creative child, full of determination to succeed in a creative world, my sole ambition was to live a creative life and make my living from my creative endeavours. My life has pursued many paths. Those paths crossed, ran parallel, then perpendicular, bent, and tracked in many directions. Ultimately, I have achieved my goal, and life has gotten richer with opportunities that present in many forms