Sandy Kennedy
Sandy Kennedy is an Irish artist whose interdisciplinary practice includes painting, drawing, writing, photography and installation, but more recently sound and film. She is a member of Visual Artists Ireland, At Home Studios and Lux Critical Forum Dublin. She studied fine art at Chelsea School of art London and film and sound at The National Film School IADT Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
Allegory (film) was selected for Utopia/Dystopia at the dlr Lexicon Gallery 2019 and was part of Barcelona Loop festival in 2018. In 2020 One For Sorrow (painting), from the Municipal Collection of Kildare County Council, was selected for exhibition at Áras Chill Dara, supported by Creative Ireland and the Arts Council. Most recently Kennedy was awarded a Kildare County Council Short Grass Film Award and Film Bursary, Professional Development and Agility Awards from the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2022 she was awarded a Film Project Award and is currently in pre production on the film, At Sea.
Kennedy’s films embrace the power of expressing through absence, erasure, secrecy, exploring what is not said. Inner monologues, with no clear linear narrative, are interwoven with augmented voices, text, sounds, movements and simple gestures. She relies on breaking the conventional pattern of observation through distortion, using disassociated images, macro imagery, slow motion and dislocated sounds in order to create a sensory effect that engages the viewer emotionally.
