Déirdre Kelly

Impossible landscapes, routes and directions emerge from Déirdre Kelly's ongoing dialogue

with the symbolic language of maps and the aesthetics of cartography.

Combination of mixed media images, collage and artists' books that re-purpose data from various found sources in order to construct new visual and metaphorical narratives.

The mechanisms and language key to reading maps provide a kind of 'grounding', a ‘grip’ on the world, a fundamental connection with people, place and time.

Behind every map there is a person : behind every person is a map.