Kilmorna Events

Kirsi Salo: Sculptures and Drawings

An exhibition opening for Kirsi Salo, bringing together sculptures and drawings shaped by land, coast, rust and decay.

Friday 12 June 2026 · Exhibition opening · The Kilmorna Collection

Kirsi Salo’s work feels as though it has been pulled from the ground rather than simply made in a studio. In her sculptures and drawings there is a strong sense of weather, pressure, erosion and memory: forms shaped by hand, but carrying the atmosphere of land, coast, rust and decay.

Working from North Kerry, Salo brings together the physicality of clay with the emotional charge of drawing. The result is contemporary work that feels both ancient and immediate. Her sculptures sit somewhere between vessel, figure, fragment and relic, while the drawings appear to search for what lies underneath the surface rather than merely describing it.

This exhibition is particularly well placed at The Kilmorna Collection. In a room already shaped by art, records, coffee and conversation, Salo’s work adds something elemental. It asks the viewer to slow down, to look at surface, mark, texture and form, and to recognise beauty in the imperfect, the weathered and the unresolved.