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Ms Deborah Kelly b. 1962

Artist (Mixed Media Artist),
Curator ,
Designer (Graphic Designer)

Deborah Kelly is a socially engaged Melbourne born Sydney based artist whose work is shown and collected nationally and internationally.

Tags: Public Art, Sculpture, Collage, Video installation, Political, Collaborative, Feminist, Performance, Refugees

received

MAMA's House Artist residency

Dates

2015

Recognition type

Residency

Website

http://www.mamalbury.com.au/
received

Albury Art Prize

Dates

2012

Recognition type

Award
received

1983 W C and F W Matthews Fellowship - The University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Dates

2011

Recognition type

Commission

Note

First prize
received

Artists in residence, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour

Dates

2010

Description

As part of boat-people.org
received

Inaugural recipient, Field Theory Autonomous Artist’s Grant

Dates

2010

Recognition type

Grant
received

Shortlisted, National Works on Paper Award

Dates

2010

Recognition type

Award
received

Shortlisted, ReelDance Dance on Film Award

Dates

2010

Recognition type

Award
received

Visiting Fellow, Cultural Studies, University of Technology, Sydney

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award

Description

2009-2011
received

Visiting Fellow, Cultural Studies, University of Technology, Sydney

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award

Description

2009-2011
received

First prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award

Note

First prize
received

First prize, Screengrab International New Media Art Award

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award

Note

First prize
received

Shortlisted, Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award
received

Shortlisted for the IDILL Dance on Film Award (Brussels)

Dates

2009

Recognition type

Award
received

Residency by invitation: Bundanon Trust

Dates

2008

Recognition type

Residency
received

Thüringer Kultusministerium and Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (combined) new art commission, production funds and travel grant for the exhibition The Big Easy (Weimar and Leipzig)

Dates

2007

Recognition type

Award
received

Graham F Smith Peace Trust (with boat-people.org) cultural grant for national history/amnesia project

Dates

2006

Recognition type

Award
received

Collaborative residency, Performance Space, Sydney

Dates

2004

Recognition type

Residency

Description

Collaboration between Gordon Hookey and Deborah Kelly
received

WINK Award

Dates

2002

Recognition type

Award

Description

As member of boat-people.org

Note

Co-winner
received

Political Artists’ International residency with Martha Rosler, Atlantic center for the Arts, Florida, USA

Dates

2002

Recognition type

Residency
received

Sydney Mardi Gras Art Prize

Dates

2001

Recognition type

Award

Description

With Tina Fiveash

Note

Winner
received

Better World Advertising

Dates

1998
received

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia

Dates

1989

Recognition type

Residency
received

Disabled Peoples’ International, Adelaide, South Australia

Dates

1988

Recognition type

Residency

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Ms Deborah Kelly b. 1962

MAMA's House Artist residency

Albury Art Prize

1983 W C and F W Matthews Fellowship - The University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA

Artists in residence, Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour

Inaugural recipient, Field Theory Autonomous Artist’s Grant

Shortlisted, National Works on Paper Award

Shortlisted, ReelDance Dance on Film Award

Visiting Fellow, Cultural Studies, University of Technology, Sydney

Visiting Fellow, Cultural Studies, University of Technology, Sydney

First prize, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

First prize, Screengrab International New Media Art Award

Shortlisted, Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest

Shortlisted for the IDILL Dance on Film Award (Brussels)

Residency by invitation: Bundanon Trust

Thüringer Kultusministerium and Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (combined) new art commission, production funds and travel grant for the exhibition The Big Easy (Weimar and Leipzig)

Graham F Smith Peace Trust (with boat-people.org) cultural grant for national history/amnesia project

Collaborative residency, Performance Space, Sydney

WINK Award

Political Artists’ International residency with Martha Rosler, Atlantic center for the Arts, Florida, USA

Sydney Mardi Gras Art Prize

Better World Advertising

Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, South Australia

Disabled Peoples’ International, Adelaide, South Australia

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