Deborah Kelly

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Deborah Kelly
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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]

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Collections

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References

  1. ↑ "CREATION | All About Women 2022". Sydney Opera House. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "Artists | The National". www.the-national.com.au. 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. "Glory be! Inside Deborah Kelly's No Human Being Is Illegal". The Conversation. Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  9. ↑ NSW, Museums & Galleries. "Deborah Kelly: No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory)". MGNSW. 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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