Charlie Kelly

My practice responds to memories documented through visual recordings, especially photography and drawing. I explore these memories through considering the dimensions of emotion using colour and geometric shapes. The work is both a representation of the state of mind, mood and attitude that I am painting with, alongside a reflection of that single moment I recorded the event. I aim to allow the paintings to become a tool for the viewer to have a momentary experience based on their interpretation of the shapes and colours.
 
I noticed that my paintings, whether intentionally or not, are influenced by my emotions and the atmosphere I am surrounded by, either through colour or composition. It is natural for humans to have an emotional response to colour to connect it with an emotion. The composition and colour within my work begins to act as a representation of my state of mind, and latches onto subconscious thought in ways I sometimes only realise on completion, or reflection.
  To me my work is a record of how I feel in that moment. I need the work respond to emotion but to give the viewer the freedom to explore their own thoughts. Replicating my emotion is not what I want, I want them to see something for themselves to reflect t...

Graduate MA Fine Art University Of Wolverhampton 2017
BA Hons Fine Art University Of Wolverhampton 2015
Foundation Art and Design (3D Design) Stourbridge College

Open Studios Wolverhampton, 2017
- http://www.wolverhamptonopenstudios.co.uk/listings/charlie-kelly/
Wolves in Wolves, June 2017
- http://www.wolvesinwolves.co.uk/artists/about/artist-kelly-charlie.html
- https://www.expressandstar.com/entertainment/2017/05/25/organisers-howling-with-joy-as-wolves-in-wolves-project-shapes-up/
The Arches Project, Reflective Realities Group Exhibition May 2017
The Arches Project Illusions of the Spectrum March 2017
The Arches Project, La Rapture Group Exhibition, February 2017
Atkinsons Gallery, Somerset, February 2017
Northey coat Farm, Week Long Placement, February 2017
- https://issuu.com/joshuagrice/docs/shifting_pro_1
Mander Centre, Redevelopment commission 2016
https://www.facebook.com/themandercentre/videos/vb.139091662850985/1228478120578995/?type=2&theater
Light Show, Direct Art Action, Walsall, 2016
Art Fest, Faculty of Arts, Wolverhampton, 2016
Northey coat Farm, Week Long Placement, February 2017
- https://issuu.com/joshuagrice/docs/shifting_pro_1
Art as Research, Telford, Artist in Residence, August 2016
https://www.wlv.ac.uk/media/departments/research/Conference-Booklet---Art-as-Research-2016-1.pdf
Transtopia, Old Print Works Birmingham October 2015
Netopia, The ...