Kelly Gorman’s art investigates societal issues of gender, race and cultural stereotype.  Her approach to making is journalistic. The story is communicated through visual disciplines such as photomontage and sculpture rather than the written word.  Gorman’s studio space exists as a “collecting point” for everything from the most obscure printed material to objects existing in our everyday popular culture.  These printed materials and objects act as research items and soon merge together in order to fulfill the hybrid nature of her practice.  Gorman is influenced by the role that the past and specific historical events have on the present state of globalism, race relations and feminism.  The juxtaposition and co-existence of “Past” and “Present” is of particular interest.  Often, her work speaks of the subtle ways mass commercialization can reinforce negative stereotypes onto culture, race and gender with detrimental effects.  Gorman’s work challenges these negative methods of thought and representation.  In effect, exposing agendas that are unconsciously at work through individual thought and the larger arena of mass media.