Deborah Kelly

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Deborah Kelly
Born1962 (age 6263)
Nationality Australian
OccupationArtist

Deborah Kelly (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian artist known for her eclectic, uplifting, socially-engaged and activist art. Her artistic practice ranges from collages to posters, postcards, banners, billboards, photography, installation, performance, events, video and drawing. Kelly regularly collaborates and contributes to collectives to address political issues including LGBTIQ+ rights, asylum for refugees and climate change. Her work is included in major national and international exhibitions and events. These include: All About Women, Sydney Opera House (2022); [1] The National, Sydney (2021); [2] the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (2014); the Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece (2014); [3] and the Singapore Biennale, Singapore (2008).

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Biography

Deborah Kelly was born on Wurundjeri/Boon Wurrung Country, in Narrm (Melbourne) in 1962. [4] She currently lives in Sydney.

Career

Throughout the 1980s, Kelly worked as a cartoonist. Her work was published widely and exhibited alongside well-known cartoonists including Kaz Cooke and Judy Horacek in Out of Line, 1991. [4] In 1988, she began making work for galleries alongside a growing public art practice. [4] Kelly was a key member of the activist collective boat-people.org, which projected imagery onto the Sydney Opera House in 2001. Footage of the guerilla act was later shown in galleries. In 2016, Kelly completed a Masters of Fine Art at UNSW Art & Design, resulting in her graduating exhibition Scenes from the Death of Books at UNSW Galleries. [5] Kelly's current major project, Creation, is a new religion of revolutionary and sacred ideas, rituals, imagery and events. [6]

Major works

Collections

References

  1. "All About Women - Creation - Deborah Kelly, Lex Lindsay + collaborators". Sydney Opera House . 2022. Archived from the original on 4 November 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. "Artists - Deborah Kelly". The National 4: Australian Art Now. 2021. Archived from the original on 4 November 2022. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  3. "Thessaloniki Biennale".
  4. 1 2 3 "Ms Deborah Kelly :: biography at :: at Design and Art Australia Online". www.daao.org.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  5. "Exhibitions by higher degree candidates Deborah Kelly, John Lethbridge & Russell Lowe". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  6. "ABOUT". CREATION. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  7. "19th Biennale of Sydney highlights". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  8. Leimbach, Tania (1 April 2014). "Glory be! Inside Deborah Kelly's No Human Being Is Illegal". The Conversation . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  9. "Deborah Kelly: No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory)". Museums & Galleries of NSW. 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2023. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  10. "Danny Smith from No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory). Collaged photograph by Deborah Kelly and collaborators, 2014-2018". Wellcome Collection. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  11. "Deborah Kelly: The Gods of Tiny Things | Exhibition ends 14 Nov 2021". www.acmi.net.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  12. Artbank (20 April 2020). "Browse Collection". artbank. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  13. "All objects | QAGOMA Collection Online". collection.qagoma.qld.gov.au. Retrieved 19 March 2022.

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