Kaleidoscope

28 November - 07 December 2025

works by

Alexandra Helm, Cynthia Harrison Orr,

Liza Kelly

An intimate encounter with colour, mark, and form, this exhibition invites viewers into a shared space where personal memory and collective imagination converge. Three artists examine the inner landscape through the tactile languages of texture, mark-making, and colour. Drawing is the foundation of their practices, a means to observe, express, respond and explore.

This exhibition offers an intimate encounter inviting viewers into a shared space where personal memory and collective imagination converge. Linked through Turps Art School, the Royal Drawing School, and collectives including Split, Studio 22, and Paper Projects, their practices are both individual and connected. Between them, they have received awards, exhibited internationally, and recently shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.

Alexandra Helm, Cynthia Harrison Orr and Liza Kelly propose an exhibition that transforms the intimacy of Gallery White Box into a site of sensorial exchange with the works acting as conduits for memory, emotion, and imagined geographies. The physical proximity of the space fosters an intensified encounter between artwork and viewer, a kaleidoscopic dialogue in which visual rhythms and tactile gestures invite each visitor to navigate their own layered narratives. The exhibition positions drawing and materiality not only as modes of making, but as means of accessing the porous boundaries between inner and outer worlds.

Alexandra Helm

For Alexandra Helm, dreams and memory are points of departure, fragments that crystallise into form, holding the residue of emotional and visual impressions. Her instinct for composition guides the viewer through each work, mapping a path of discovery. Often infused with colour and light, her pieces seem to hum with their own quiet resonance. Alexandra Helm competed her Foundation at Chelsea School of Art and Design (Distinction) and embarked on a BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s. More recently she has completed two years with Turps Art School CC (2023-2025) and extends her practice at The Royal Drawing School. Alexandra has exhibited the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2023). Recent exhibitions include Lido Stores (Margate), Lindon Hall Studio (Deal), Platforms Project (Athens), Summer Contemporary (Suffolk) and Canal Boat Contemporary (London). Alexandra is a founding member of The Split Collective and has been invited to donate work to Art on a Postcard for their International Women’s Day and Winter exhibitions. Alexandra had a solo exhibition in Aldeburgh Beach Lookout (Suffolk) in 2023.

Cynthia Harrison Orr

“For me, drawing is a way to explore freedom and intuition, a space where the subconscious can wander and marks take on a life of their own. Drawing is so immediate: pouring out through my hand, every mark has its place, and nothing is erased. Each drawing arrives as a surprise, never planned, always an unknown entity. I’m drawn to the edges between control and chaos, so my work often feels layered, gestural and restless. Each piece grows out of a fascination with emotional tension, human behaviour and shared experience. I love when a drawing starts to move with its own energy, full of drama and motion, as though it refuses to stay contained. When that happens, it feels alive: abundant, insistent, spilling beyond the page, desperate to keep going forever.”

Cynthia Harrison Orr holds a 1st class BA(Hons) in Graphic Design and a BA(Hons) in Fine Art Contemporary Practice. She has completed the Royal Drawing School’s Postgraduate Drawing Development Year and is currently one of Turps CC artists (2024–26). Cynthia has been in residence at Dumfries House, and her work is in The King’s Collection. She also has a curatorial practice, most recently curating a stand at Platform Projects Athens. Recent exhibitions include Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Jersey Summer Exhibition, Similcast I and Simulcast II, Sheffield, Shifting Sands CCA Galleries International, Jersey and The Split Collective touring exhibition. Cynthia was shortlisted for Jacksons Art Prize 2025.

Liza Kelly

Liza Kelly is a Dublin-based visual artist. She explores memory and the history of place and objects in her work, using a mix of observation and imagination. She thinks about themes of home, place, presence and absence, leading to the creation of playful, whimsical, and sometimes uncanny imagery. Her work spans figuration, interior studies, still life, and landscape, woven with references from art history and popular culture. Printmaking is integral to her process, with its inherent limitations, imperfections, and unpredictability adding depth and character to each final image.

Liza graduated from the National College of Art & Design, Dublin, with a BA Fine Art (Printmaking) and holds an MA in Professional Design Practice from TU Dublin. She completed the postgraduate Online Drawing Development Year at the Royal Drawing School, London, in 2022. She regularly exhibits her work in Ireland and internationally. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Academy of Arts (London), Royal Hibernian Academy (Dublin), Royal Ulster Academy (Belfast), Blue Shop Galleries (London), Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair (London) and Platforms Project (Athens). She is the recipient of awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Royal Drawing School. Her work was selected for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Drawing Prize and the Sir William Orpen Self-Portrait Prize in 2025. Her work is held in private collections in Ireland, Europe, Asia and the USA and in the King’s Collection, U.K.