HEART TO ART
Nov 11, 2021
4 minutes
By Jeffrey Yan
KELLY LIMERICK
A self-taught artist who has been crocheting and knitting since she was a child, Kelly Limerick applies her skills to a range of works spanning sculptures, assemblage, hangings and installations—all connected through their rich tactility and Limerick’s almost-psychedelic approach to colour. Interested in the idea of destruction and deconstruction as a way of subverting her chosen medium of crochet and questioning the concept of “value”, Limerick is also increasingly working more and more with waste products—shining a spotlight on the issue of overconsumption.
She says of her approach to art: “I’m currently in the stage of exploring and finding out
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