Practice
I make drawings, books, objects and text-based work, often starting with something personal. I’m interested in identity, memory, relationships and the stories we humans construct around our lives.
Lately, I’ve been drawing a lot of people — particularly self-portraits, faces and figures — as a way of trying to understand people better. Looking closely gives me a way to think about expression, identity and lived experience. This grows out of an earlier multidisciplinary body of work using installation, sound, moving image and digital technologies, where storytelling, participation and creating encounters became central to how I work.
Alongside making art, I teach and write about art. Across these different parts of what I do, I’m interested in how looking closely, asking questions and making things can help us understand both art and the world around us.
Biography
I’m a London-based artist and arts educator. I’ve been making and exhibiting work for more than fifteen years, working across drawing, books, objects, words, installation, sound, moving image and digital technologies.
I studied Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art and Chelsea College of Arts, and later returned to drawing through study at the Royal Drawing School. My practice spans across private studio practice, exhibitions, collaborative projects, workshops and gallery-based learning.
Alongside my own artwork, I teach art and creative technologies, work with children and adults in museums and galleries, and write about exhibitions, artists, books, events and more through my arts journal, kelise72.com.