A question of taste - John Kelly

John Kelly is an artist. His father is from Cork, and mother from Bristol. The family emigrated to Australia in 1965, the year of John’s birth. Kelly has lived in all three countries and for the past decade has resided in West Cork. This week, his exhibition, John Kelly: A Group Show, will open at Uillinn in Skibbereen.

Best recent book: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry, a 2011 book by Jon Ronson. The world is full of psychopaths and I met a pretty ugly one in Cork a few years back. I read this to try and understand how they work. Fascinating to think so many walk among us and are in positions of responsibility.

Best recent film: Six Degrees of Separation directed by Fred Schepisi. It’s a film I had missed back in the 1990s but caught up with recently. Not unrelated to the psychopath I met in Cork in that the main character tells great big lies that people really want to believe and therefore become complicit in the lie. A brilliant director and film!