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4/5/2012. Two of Kevin & Sally-Anne Kelly's videos will be showing at the Athens Video Art Festival, 18-20th May 2012.
30/4/2012. New video work will be screened at Drop Everything. Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr's Art Centre, Co. Galway, Ireland. 19th May 2012.
3/4/2012. The Unnameable is available as a limited edition of 200. Four colour printed, 300gsm. 25 x 15cm landscape, hardbound embossed cover with case jacket. For more information please see www.unnameable.net
16/02/2012. Kevin & Sally-Anne have been selected as finalists for the Arte Laguna prize, in video art with the film The Unnameable. The exhibition will open on 17th March at the Arsenale, Venice. Exhibition continues until 1st April, 10am-6pm (8pm during weekends). More on Arte Laguna. Supported by Culture Ireland.
7/02/2012. BFI's Sight & Sound mention An Oral Fixation in their review of the London Short Film Festival, as does the Digital Hub.
7/01/2012. An Oral Fixation received the Little White Lies Award from the 9th London Short Film Festival on 6th January at the ICA. If you missed the screening, it will be shown alongside all other awarded films on 15th January as part of the Closing Night Award Ceremony. Tickets are available from the ICA.
13/12/2011. An Oral Fixation will be screened on 6th January 2012 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) as part of the London Short Film Festival. Buy tickets from the ICA here. More on the London Short Film Festival.
10/12/2011. The Startpoint Selection exhibition will feature Kevin's work at Galerie Vytvarneho Umeni Cheb (GAVU), Czech Republic, from 19th January to 25th March 2011. More on GAVU. More on Startpoint.
15/11/2011. The Brighton Film Festival & Cinecity will be screening The Unnameable on 30th November at the Nightingale as part of a wider programme. 7pm. Purchase tickets here.
12/10/2011. Kevin received an honorary mention from the Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists, leading to a residency and group show in Prague in 2012. A publication has been produced in connection with exhibition, which continues through December in Brno, Wannieck Gallery, Czech Republic. Kindly supported by Culture Ireland. More information on the prize here.
08/10/2011. Kevin has recieved an artists bursary award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
01/10/2011. Kevin will represent the Royal College of Art at the Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists 2011. Exhibition opens 6pm, 11th October 2011, Wannieck Gallery, Ve Vankovce 2, Brno.
30/9/2011. Kevin & Sally-Anne completed a residency at the Cill Rialig Arts Centre, co. Kerry, and made a new film, The Observer & I.
3/8/2011. The Unnameable / Kevin Gaffney & Sally-Anne Kelly's first solo exhibition as a duo in Ireland runs from 13th August - 17th September 2011, 10am-6pm. Gallery 2, RUA RED, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
3/8/2011. Screening of two new films at the Lab followed by a discussion. The Lab, Dublin City Council. 17/8/2011, 6pm.
2/8/2011. Kevin Gaffney & Sally-Anne Kelly's work will be exhibited as part of i am not a poet at Totalkunst Gallery, as part of the Forest Festival Programme. 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh.
6/7/2011. Kevin Gaffney & Sally-Anne Kelly have been awarded the Grand Prix at the Sapporo Biennale international art competition. they will create work in Hokkaido for presentation at the Sapporo Biennale 2014, Japan.
3/7/2011. Hard Cover: Image Perspectives from Black Dog Publishing has been released featuring The Unnameable text and images. Hardcover also features newly commissioned writing, with essays by an impressive roster of leading academics and experts from the photography and moving-image field - including Simon Baker, Curator of Photography at Tate Modern, Olivier Richon, Professor of Photography at the RCA, and Californian-based artist and writer Leslie Dick, and is edited by internationally renowned photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg. Buy from Black Dog or buy from Amazon
2/7/2011. Blogs mention The Unnameable at RCA SHOW 2011. Mrs Tssk & Victoria Stone.
25/5/2011. Royal College of Art graduate fine art show private view: June 22nd. Exhibition continues: 24 June - 3 July 2011 (closed 1 July). Testbed 1, 33 Parkgate Road, london SW11 4NP. RCA SHOW 2011.
7/6/2011. The Unnameable: Prologue will be screened at Portugal's FEST international film festival on July 30th at 22h in the experimental cinema section.
20/5/2011. Pseudo Nippon's debut album Universal Pork Tai Chi has been released internationally, with artwork by Kevin Gaffney. Buy from HMV.
8/3/2011. Kevin has been shortlisted for the Red Mansion Awards 2011.
28/2/2011. ARTISIT? has published The Lady Gaga Saga.
1/11/2010. The Unnameable featured in an exhibition in the Royal College of Art, London, as part of the Battle of Ideas festival on the 30th & 31st of October 2010. The exhibition was curated by David Rayson, professor and head of department, school of fine art, department of painting, Royal College of Art.
