 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(December 2023) |
William Joseph Kelly OAM (1943-2023) was an American artist, humanist and human-rights advocate who lived and worked in Australia and the United States.
| | This article needs additional citations for verification .(December 2023) |
William Joseph Kelly OAM (1943-2023) was an American artist, humanist and human-rights advocate who lived and worked in Australia and the United States.
William Kelly was born in Buffalo, New York in 1943, and received his artistic training at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the National Gallery School in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), his country of part-time residence since 1968. [1] He was also a Fulbright Fellow for which he studied at Prahran College of Advanced Education.
In addition to creating traditional prints, drawings and paintings, Kelly has organized and participated in collaborations in public art and theatre. Kelly promotes his humanist ideals in his art, for example; in response to a 1987 mass murder in Melbourne, Kelly spent five years on works for an installation titled "The Peace Project." "The Peace Project" was first exhibited in 1993 in both Melbourne and Boston, Massachusetts. It was the first visual art project to receive the Australian Violence Prevention Award. His work has been exhibited in over 20 countries with an installation in Guernica, Spain and traveling group exhibitions throughout Europe and South Africa (representing Australia in the Dialogue Among Civilizations International Print Portfolio organized to coincide with the cultural activities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup).
Kelly authored an anthology, Violence to Nonviolence: Individual Perspectives, Communal Voices, [2] that was published in 1994. His artwork has also appeared in other books, such as Cultures of Crime and Violence: The Australian Experience [3] and "Women's Encounters with Violence. [4] Kelly's artworks are reproduced in publications worldwide and are represented in over 40 public and corporate collections.
In 2000 Kelly founded the Archive of Humanist Art, which highlights prints and drawings of artists from all over the world that address humanist concerns. The projects have been linked to the Basque Country, Spain; Robben Island, site of the prison that once held Nelson Mandela; the Republic of Georgia and Northern Ireland.
Mark Street made Can Art Stop a Bullet, a feature documentary on Kelly's life, work in the peace movement, and travels.
He had studios in Melbourne, Nathalia (his last home) and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Kelly, along with his partner Veronica Kelly initiated The G.R.A.I.N. Store in Nathalia, Australia. The gallery, workshop and performing space has been running for the past 13 years.
Kelly was Dean (1975–1982) of the Victorian College of the Arts [5] following Lenton Parr. He has delivered guest lectures at Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The New York Studio School and in Europe, South Africa, North America, Eastern Europe, Australasia.
For his role as an international artist, humanist, human rights advocate, and founder of the Archive of Humanist Art , Kelly received the Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts. [6]
He was recipient of the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) (for Services to Visual Arts and Urban Design). [7] He was Founding and Honorary Life Member of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Founding Member of the Urban Design Forum, and former member of the Board of the Australian Print Workshop.
Prahran, is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area. Prahran recorded a population of 12,203 at the 2021 census.
Chapel Street is a street in Melbourne, Victoria, running along the inner suburbs of South Yarra, Prahran, Windsor, St Kilda and St Kilda East.
Peter Churcher is an Australian artist. He paints portraits and figures in a realistic style.
John Keith Dunstan, known as Keith Dunstan, was an Australian journalist and author. He was a prolific writer and the author of more than 35 books.
John Davis was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of environmental art.
The National Gallery of Victoria Art School, associated with the National Gallery of Victoria, was a private fine arts college founded in 1867 and was Australia's leading art school of 50 years.
Jessie Constance Alicia Traill was an Australian printmaker. Trained by Frederick McCubbin at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School, and by painter and printmaker Frank Brangwyn in London, Traill worked in England and France in the period immediately preceding World War I. During the war she served in hospitals with the Voluntary Aid Detachment.
Thomas Lenton Parr AM was an Australian sculptor and teacher.
Australian feminist art timeline lists exhibitions, artists, artworks and milestones that have contributed to discussion and development of feminist art in Australia. The timeline focuses on the impact of feminism on Australian contemporary art. It was initiated by Daine Singer for The View From Here: 19 Perspectives on Feminism, an exhibition and publishing project held at West Space as part of the 2010 Next Wave Festival.
Udo Sellbach (1927–2006) was a German-Australian visual artist and educator whose work focused primarily around his printmaking practice.
John Chester Cato was an Australian photographer and teacher. Cato started his career as a commercial photographer and later moved towards fine-art photography and education. Cato spent most of his life in Melbourne, Australia.
Julian Martin is an Australian artist, known primarily for his pastel drawings and self-portraits. Martin resides in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster, and has worked from his Northcote-based studio at Arts Project Australia since 1989, where he has also had numerous solo shows. He has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally [see Exhibitions] and in 1994 he was a finalist in the prestigious Moët & Chandon Travelling Fellowship. In 2014 he was the winner of the Australian State Trustees Connected art prize. His work is held in several public collections, including the Deakin University Art Collection, the City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection and Monash University Museum of Art.
Merris Estelle Hillard is an Australian printmaker and photographer, born in Sydney Australia.
Toorak Art Gallery was an art gallery 277 Toorak Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, which specialised in contemporary figurative and abstract Australian art. It was in operation from 1964 to 1975.
The Prahran College of Advanced Education, formerly Prahran College of Technology, was a late-secondary and tertiary institution with a business school, a trade school, and a multi-disciplinary art school that dated back to the 1860s, populated by instructors and students who were among Australia’s significant artists, designers and performers.
Andrew Chapman OAM, is an Australian photojournalist.
Melinda Harper is an Australian abstract artist. She works with a variety of media including drawing, collage, photography, screen printing, painted objects and embroideries. Her work is characterised by the use of colours, stripes and geometrical designs.
Rosemary Anne Crumlin RSM OAM is an Australian Sister of Mercy, art historian, educator and exhibition curator with a special interest in art and spirituality. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2001 Queen's Birthday Honours for service to the visual arts, particularly the promotion and understanding of contemporary and religious art, to education, and to the community.
Sandra Leveson, also known as Sandra Leveson-Meares, is an Australian painter, printmaker, and teacher.
Allan Mitelman is an Australian painter, printmaker and art teacher who arrived in Australia in 1953.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
