Kelly Richardson

Kelly Richardson (born 1972) is a Canadian artist working with digital technologies to create hyper-real landscapes.

In 2003, she moved to the United Kingdom taking up residence in the northeast where she also completed her master's degree at Newcastle University with distinction.

[1] Her work "adopts the use of cinematic language to investigate notions of constructed environments and the blurring of the real versus the unreal.

"[6] As David Jager noted in Canadian Art,[7] Richardson deploys a formidable range of techniques and a broad palette of approaches in her creation of a new aesthetic, one that elicits a euphoric suspension of disbelief, allowing viewers to delve into the increasingly ambiguous and complex juncture between the real and the represented.

In 2012, a 15-year retrospective exhibition of her work entitled Legion was organised by and premiered at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in England.