Sharon Kelly – Harbour

‘Harbour’, a new solo exhibition by QSS artist Sharon Kelly, opens tomorrow at the Linen Hall Arts Centre.

Opening event: Friday 11 April, 5pm
Exhibition dates: Friday 11 April – Saturday 17 May

This new body of work, inspired by research into personal family history from Co Mayo, is a contemplation on what lies hidden or undetected and how this might shape our sense of self and connection to the world.

The artist explores the complexities of concealment and emotional burden, utilising the materiality of worn clothing, sewing patterns, and other fragile media, revealing echoes of past lives and pondering absences and the unfulfilled. Pockets offer spaces where secrets or forgotten things or places may be hidden, quietly harbouring the precious or burdensome.

In excavating personal history, Kelly links themes of intimacy, emotional weight and burden, particularly from the female point of view and experience.