Elizabeth Kinsella

"This series of books take the form of original drawings and altered texts from a set of seemingly never opened 1960's academic journals.

In splicing together text from various articles I wanted to emphasis the monotony of these outdated writings...the ennui of academic life.

The drawings build on repetition, a kind of meeting room doodle, a sense of being trapped in the margins. Little colour blocks of tedium forming strings of cells or maze like structures, ultimately purposeless...but allowing the drawings to interact with the text while each remain locked in their own formal space.

It was also important that all of the drawings be unique to form final hands on, coming to terms with these lonely volumes."


Elizabeth graduated from the University of Ulster with a BA (Hons.) in Fine Art in 1990 and an MA in Fine Art in 1991, where she was awarded the Spectrum Painting Prize and Peter Moores Foundation Scholarship.

Elizabeth's first solo exhibition was in1995 at the Midlands Arts Resource Centre, Mullingar. She has since shown at the Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, the Sligo Art Gallery, and the Peacock Gallery, Craigavon. Her group Exhibitions include EVA Open, Limerick City Art Gallery, 1998. Map, seven painters at the BBK Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1996. Five Painters at the Model Arts Centre, Sligo. 1996. Academy without Walls, fifty under forty at the RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin 1995 and Ignition at the Slaughter House Gallery, London and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 1991 and most recently Alchemy, the inaugural exhibition of the Solstice Art Centre, Co. Meath.