Bella Kelly b. 14 January 1915

Also known as Isobel Kelly, Isobel Colbung
  • Artist (Draughtsman),
  • Artist (Painter)
Noongar Aboriginal landscape artist from Mount Barker who is strongly associated with the Carrolup school of artists. Well remembered and respected in the southwest, Great Southern and South Coast regions of Western Australia.
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Citations

  • Krakouer, Laurence (2009), 'Verbal Correspondence with the author’.

  • Hansen, Philip (2009), 'Verbal correspondence with the author’.

  • Hansen, Philip (2009), 'Verbal correspondence with the author’.

  • Hansen, Philip (2009), 'Verbal correspondence with the author’.

  • Winmar, Alta (1991), ''Belly Kelly’ in Nyungar Art from the South-West Region of Western Australia’, Dumbartung Aboriginal Corporation, Waterford, WA, See pp 12-13.

  • 'The Nyoongar people of South Western Australia’ (March 2003), Online WA Multicultural Communities Gateway, volume 4, issue 1, March 2003, Accessed 21/4/09.

    http://www.multicultural.online.wa.gov.au/wppuser/owamc/march03news/noongar.html

  • Lawrence, Carmen (1991), 'Speech Notes by Carmen Lawrence, opening of exhibition of works by Bella Kelly, Alma Toomath and Michelle Broun, 12 April 1991’, Espace@Curtin – Curtin’s Research Repository, Accessed 21/4/09.

    http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=113506&local_base=GEN01

  • Narkle, Geoffrey & Milroy, David (2007), 'King Hit’, Currency Press Pty Ltd, Strawberry Hills, NSW, [first written in 1997].

Initial data sources

  • Storylines Project, COFA, UNSW

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