My Solo Show is now open for 3 weeks in Pigyard Gallery Wexford. Huge thanks to the Pigyard for hosting me and to the Artist Bernadette Doolan for doing a beautiful job of officially opening the show.
To Reserve a painting please contact Trish or Tony at the Pigyard
Artists Bernadette Doolan & Esther O'Kelly
A collection of my work is now available at The Lavelle Art Gallery in Main Street Clifden.
The Gallery has been operating since 1988. Today the gallery maintains a longstanding reputation for the promotion of fine art painting of the highest quality in the west of Ireland.
The gallery building is over two hundred years old and frequent visitors to Clifden will instantly recognise this tall bright yellow edifice. Clifden shop owners take great pride in their shop fronts which are brightly coloured and faithfully maintained. None more than the Lavelle Gallery which has been painted ‘Indian Palace yellow’ since the early 1980’s. This striking building has been in the Lavelle family for six generations.
Deborah Watkins & Gavin Lavelle Gallery Owners
I have a painting in this years Catalyst Arts Members show TESTING.
The show aims to give space to explore alternative perspectives and new approaches within your practice. Catalysts want their artists to play devil’s advocate with their usual working method, tease it, play with it, wriggle around it, blow it up and stick it back together, trick it and confront it. Without testing new ideas we run the chance of getting too comfortable and of missing that which could possibly lead to a more creative outcome. For this show members are asked to see Catalyst Arts as a testing ground for experimentation and to showcase new perspectives and possibilities within your work.
Here is my piece, 'Squall' 50cm x 50cm Framed
Opening: 4th May 2017 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition runs: 4th – 11th May
The BBC Arts Show came for a visit to the Bank.
Credit: Kelly McAllister Photography
We The Belfast Bankers opened our new building to the public last friday (7th April); the old Ulster Bank based on the Newtownards Road, East Belfast is temporarily a space for painters, sculptors, photographers, song writers, screen printers, bee hives (!), musicians, street artist, puppet makers and much more. The event saw a great turnout, and given the recent demolition in Belfast’s artisitic Cathedral Quarter, this ‘not-for-profit’ project, is a shining example of what can be achieved with creative ideas and teamwork, instead of bulldozers.
Read Culture Hub Review of Opening Night
Photo credits Kelly McAllister & Phil Dorman
Sincere thanks to everyone who came down to my Framewerk show and especially to those going home with an EO'K original, your support means everything. I'm happy to announce that I have another show coming up this July in Wexford, I'll be busy till then channelling happy summer vibes to fill the gallery space.
In the meantime you can find me here; feel free to browse my paintings, but to keep up to date with my daily practice, follow me on Instagram @estherokelly. You can also find me at work in my studio @Belfastbankers.
Time now to get scruffy.
'Well you're in your little room
and you're working on something good
but if it's really good
you're gonna need a bigger room
and when you're in the bigger room
you might not know what to do
you might have to think of
how you got started
sitting in your little room'
Something exciting is happening in East Belfast, and I'm going to be a part of it.
