Deborah Kelly | River Of Birds
River of Birds| 2018
76 x 55 cm
Giclee digital print on archival Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper
Blackwood frame with museum glass
Edition 2 of 5
$3,500
Deborah Kelly
Bio
Deborah Kelly is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown around Australia, and in the biennials of Singapore, Sydney, Thessaloniki, TarraWarra, Cementa and Venice.
In 2017 her first international solo exhibition, Venus Envy, was shown at the Kvindemuseet in Denmark. In 2018 her second one-person European show, Life in the Ruins, was held at the Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie in Zurich.
Deborah Kelly’s projects across media are concerned with lineages of representation, politics and history in public exchange, and practices of collectivity on small and large scale.
Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at MOMA PS1 in NYC, the ICA in London, the Hammer Museum in LA and the Pera Museum in Istanbul. She has won the premier award of the Fotogenia Festival in Mexico City (2019), The Fisher’s Ghost Prize, The Albury Art Prize, Silver Medal at the WOFF awards in Brighton UK and several other awards.
The collaborative portrait project No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) she instigated for the 2014 Biennale of Sydney toured regional galleries 2015–2018, and moved to a permanent home in the Wellcome Trust Collection, London, in 2019. As Wellcome’s first artist in residence she completed a new portrait for the suite in December 2019, which will be displayed from late 2020.
