Kathleen Reilly

She has won numerous awards and grants for her practice with work in both public and private collections. Recently Reilly was awarded the Daiwa Scholarship by the Daiwa-Anglo Japanese Foundation. By writing poetry she observes and absorbs fleeting moments and unconscious actions within her every day. Key texts are chosen and abstracted to form tangible outcomes. As she associates her writings with the physical world, memories are awoken and juxtapositions formed. Reilly plays with the semiotic qualities of her objects that seemingly flux between

circumstance.

Her work encompasses a broad range of technical and industrial processes, including

electroforming, moulding making and die cutting, with a focus on the power of material and composition to shift entrenched understandings. Reilly reinvents the commonplace with elegant and often witty outcomes that can carry ambiguous functions.