Profile
Ed Kelly (aka Fault & Fold) works as a designer, artist and musician based in Dublin. He studied at IADT and graduated with a Degree in Design (B.Des) and a Diploma in Fine Art (Painting).
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His process driven work explores a specific set of interplays between bold zones of colour, repetitive rhythmic patterns, hard edges and stark boundaries.
Recent Selected Exhibitions:
Group: ‘MATERIALISTS’ at Outset Gallery, Galway
November 2022 ︎︎︎
Group: Scoop at Hens Teeth Dublin
November 2022 ︎︎︎
Group: MEND.HX at MEND Dublin
October 2022 ︎︎︎
Group: First Day Gallery at Guinness Storehouse Dublin
September 2021 ︎︎︎
Group: Music is the Brandy of the Damned at The Bernard Shaw Dublin
September 2021 ︎︎︎
Solo: Fault & Fold at Lucky’s Dublin
September 2020 ︎︎︎
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Kelly’s visual work is constantly informed by a parallel journey as an active musician with a number of Dublin based experimental bands, groups and collectives over the past two decades.
He has been a member of Cap Pas Cap (Skinny Wolves Records, Rally Klee Records - Japan) and Thread Pulls (Ninepoint Records) writing, recording and touring across Europe with both groups.
He continues to write, record and perform with these collaborators in two active seperate musical projects - Oranges (Art for Blind Records, Diet of Worms) and Hostess (After the Quake Records)
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Thread Pulls:
Summer Songs, EP, 9-pt Records, 2004
Red Bridge, (compilation), Risc Records, 2005
Fluorescent Series, 3 EPs, 9-pt Records, 2006
‘Untitled’, Unreleased LP 2005
Selected live performances & tours:
Festivals - All Tomorrow’s Parties festival UK curated by Vincent Gallo
Performances & tours with - Tarwater, Liars, Bardo Pond, La Quiete
Cap Pas Cap:
Not Not Is Fine, Vinyl EP, Skinny Wolves Records, 2006
Not Not Is Fine, CD EP, Rally Klee, JAPAN, 2006
See & A - Martin Rev Remix, Unreleased 2006
Said Say It - Crystal Castles Remix, Unreleased 2007
We Are Men, Vinyl 12”, Skinny Wolves Records, 2008
Marnie Stern & Cap Pas Cap, Vinyl Split 7”, Hidden Hive, UK, 2008
Haunted Light, Vinyl LP & Cassette, Skinny Wolves Records, 2010
Selected live shows:
Festivals - Electric Picnic, Oxegen, Reading UK
Performances & tours with - The Gossip, Liars, Crystal Castles, James Chance & The Contortions, The Go! Team, Foals, Erase Errata, Konono No.1
Hostess:
A Simple Life, Vinyl LP, After The Quake Records, 2018
Oranges:
Hey Zeus, Cassette LP, Art for Blind Records, 2019
Above Greenland, Cassette LP, Diet of Worms, 2020
Marshmallow World, Cassette LP, Diet of Worms, 2021
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Biography:
︎ Ed Kelly (B.Des, born Sligo) has been working in the creative industry since graduating from the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) with a Bachelors Degree in Design (B.Des) and an Honours Diploma in Fine Art (Painting).
His multi disciplinary work covers graphic art, painting, photography, assemblage, site specific installation, graphic design and design for screen. In addition to this activity he continues a career in the creative industry as a graphic designer & creative director working on large scale interaction design and visual identity projects in Dublin and Berlin for agencies that include Kooba (currently co owner and Creative Director), Windmill Lane & Ogilvy.
Selected clients & collaborators: RTE, 3 Arena, The National College of Art & Design, Aviva Stadium, Trinity College, Screen Ireland (Irish Film Board), Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, National Treasury Management Agency, Holoplot (Berlin) and Kultur Und Kreativepiloten Deutschland.
His visual work is informed and complimented by a parallel journey as an active musician with a number of Dublin based experimental bands, groups and collectives. He has been a member of Cap Pas Cap (on Skinny Wolves Records / Rally Klee, Japan) and Thread Pulls (Ninepoint Records, Osaka Records) writing, recording and touring internationally with both groups across Europe.
He continues to write, record and perform with these collaborators in two new active and seperate musical projects as Oranges (Diet of Worms, Art for Blind Records) and Hostess (After the Quake Records) as well as establishing and co running Diet of Worms, a small music and art publishing label.
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Ed Kelly (aka Fault & Fold) works as a designer, artist and musician based in Dublin. He studied at IADT and graduated with a Degree in Design (B.Des) and a Diploma in Fine Art (Painting).
His process driven work explores a specific set of interplays between bold zones of colour, repetitive rhythmic patterns, hard edges and stark boundaries.
Recent Selected Exhibitions:
Group: ‘MATERIALISTS’ at Outset Gallery, Galway
November 2022 ︎︎︎
Group: Scoop at Hens Teeth Dublin
November 2022 ︎︎︎
Group: MEND.HX at MEND Dublin
October 2022 ︎︎︎
Group: First Day Gallery at Guinness Storehouse Dublin
September 2021 ︎︎︎
Group: Music is the Brandy of the Damned at The Bernard Shaw Dublin
September 2021 ︎︎︎
Solo: Fault & Fold at Lucky’s Dublin
September 2020 ︎︎︎
Kelly’s visual work is constantly informed by a parallel journey as an active musician with a number of Dublin based experimental bands, groups and collectives over the past two decades.
He has been a member of Cap Pas Cap (Skinny Wolves Records, Rally Klee Records - Japan) and Thread Pulls (Ninepoint Records) writing, recording and touring across Europe with both groups.
He continues to write, record and perform with these collaborators in two active seperate musical projects - Oranges (Art for Blind Records, Diet of Worms) and Hostess (After the Quake Records)
Thread Pulls:
Summer Songs, EP, 9-pt Records, 2004
Red Bridge, (compilation), Risc Records, 2005
Fluorescent Series, 3 EPs, 9-pt Records, 2006
‘Untitled’, Unreleased LP 2005
Selected live performances & tours:
Festivals - All Tomorrow’s Parties festival UK curated by Vincent Gallo
Performances & tours with - Tarwater, Liars, Bardo Pond, La Quiete
Cap Pas Cap:
Not Not Is Fine, Vinyl EP, Skinny Wolves Records, 2006
Not Not Is Fine, CD EP, Rally Klee, JAPAN, 2006
See & A - Martin Rev Remix, Unreleased 2006
Said Say It - Crystal Castles Remix, Unreleased 2007
We Are Men, Vinyl 12”, Skinny Wolves Records, 2008
Marnie Stern & Cap Pas Cap, Vinyl Split 7”, Hidden Hive, UK, 2008
Haunted Light, Vinyl LP & Cassette, Skinny Wolves Records, 2010
Selected live shows:
Festivals - Electric Picnic, Oxegen, Reading UK
Performances & tours with - The Gossip, Liars, Crystal Castles, James Chance & The Contortions, The Go! Team, Foals, Erase Errata, Konono No.1
Hostess:
A Simple Life, Vinyl LP, After The Quake Records, 2018
Oranges:
Hey Zeus, Cassette LP, Art for Blind Records, 2019
Above Greenland, Cassette LP, Diet of Worms, 2020
Marshmallow World, Cassette LP, Diet of Worms, 2021
︎ Ed Kelly (B.Des, born Sligo) has been working in the creative industry since graduating from the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) with a Bachelors Degree in Design (B.Des) and an Honours Diploma in Fine Art (Painting).
His multi disciplinary work covers graphic art, painting, photography, assemblage, site specific installation, graphic design and design for screen. In addition to this activity he continues a career in the creative industry as a graphic designer & creative director working on large scale interaction design and visual identity projects in Dublin and Berlin for agencies that include Kooba (currently co owner and Creative Director), Windmill Lane & Ogilvy.
Selected clients & collaborators: RTE, 3 Arena, The National College of Art & Design, Aviva Stadium, Trinity College, Screen Ireland (Irish Film Board), Design & Crafts Council of Ireland, National Treasury Management Agency, Holoplot (Berlin) and Kultur Und Kreativepiloten Deutschland.
His visual work is informed and complimented by a parallel journey as an active musician with a number of Dublin based experimental bands, groups and collectives. He has been a member of Cap Pas Cap (on Skinny Wolves Records / Rally Klee, Japan) and Thread Pulls (Ninepoint Records, Osaka Records) writing, recording and touring internationally with both groups across Europe.
He continues to write, record and perform with these collaborators in two new active and seperate musical projects as Oranges (Diet of Worms, Art for Blind Records) and Hostess (After the Quake Records) as well as establishing and co running Diet of Worms, a small music and art publishing label.
