About Kelly

Living and painting in Melbourne’s Sherbrooke rainforest, Kelly's landscapes depict many of the distinct elements of the surrounding environment along with inspiration from her love of travel. Balancing the qualities of realism and impressionism her work explores the composition of organic light and texture, together with weather and ecological variations. As a consequence of residing in this unique and contrasting location, her art frequently details the fleeting moments she encounters.

Kelly has developed her technique and style through practice and repetition.  Her landscapes are constructed over many layers and in a subdued palette of oils as a means to describe shifts in the weather. While periodically creating works alla prima, most scapes are completed over the course of several weeks, as layers are provided the time to dry, emerge and be added to. Producing vistas that exist in a state of augmentation and transformation, the paintings are often immersive and sensory renderings. She surrenders to her intuitive responses and allow these reactions to guide her process to ensure her works are highly evocative in their nature, summoning sensations of curiosity and enlightenment.

Kelly’s works have been exhibited in regional Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, along with metropolitan Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Additionally, she’s been a finalist in several Australian art competitions, winning categories in the Biblio Art Awards and at Art Red Hill and receiving a highly commended at Quadrant Gallery’s Feel Good Art Prize.

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Exhibitions

2026 (June upcoming) Project Gallery, Woollahra, 

2026 (June upcoming) Our Lands, Art to Art, Hawthorn

2026 Feel Good, Quadrant Gallery, Hawthorn

2026 Continuum, Burrinja Art Gallery, Upwey

2026 Other Things, Project Gallery, Woollahra

2025 Queenscliffe Art Prize Pier exhibitions around Victoria

2025 Camberwell Art Show, Hawthorn

2025 Force of Nature, Art Lovers Australia, Collingwood

2025 Beyond City Limits, MAVA at The Old Auction House Kyneton

2025 Group Landscape Show, The Toowoomba Gallery

2024 Spring Fever, Manyung Gallery, Mornington

2024 Affordable Art Fairs, The Toowoomba Gallery, Randwick & Carlton

2024 Echoes of the Earth, Art Lovers Australia, Collingwood

2023 Bluethumb Awards, Bluethumb, Richmond

2023 Solo Show - Inclement, UP Gallery, Sassafras

2023 Solo Show - Juliet's Sky, Little Oberon Gallery, Fish Creek

2023 Inaugural Group Opening, Red Fox Pottery Studio Gallery, Berwick

2023 Land Sea Sky, Art Lovers Australia, Collingwood

2023 Fiercely Feminine, Art Lovers Australia, Collingwood

2023 Art Red Hill, Red Hill Consolidated School, Red Hill

2022 Summer Series, 26 Advantage Gallery, Highett

2022 Solo Show - Elementary, Earthly Pleasures, Belgrave

2021 Off the Cuff, A MAVA Collective Group Exhibition, The Hut Gallery, Ferntree Gully

2021 Wabi Sabi - the Beauty of Imperfection, Burrinja Gallery - DROS Group Exhibition, Upwey

 

Prizes

Facets Fairholme 2026 – Finalist

Omnia Prize 2026 – Finalist

Feel Good Art Prize 2026 – Highly Commended

Facets Fairholme 2025 – Finalist

Omnia Prize 2025 – Finalist

Columbas Art Prize 2025 – Finalist

Blarney's Biblio-Art Awards 2024 - Finalist

Waverley 9 x 5 Landscape Prize 2024 - Finalist

Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2024 – Finalist

Facets Fairholme 2024 – Finalist

Omnia Prize 2024 – Finalist

Doyles Art Award 2024 – Finalist

Bluethumb Art Prize 2023 – Finalist

The Harden Art Prize 2023 – Finalist

Art Red Hill 2023 - Category Winner 'Highly Commended Painting/Work on Paper'

Blarney's Biblio-Art Awards 2022 - Category Winner 'Starving Artist'

Unearthed at Art to Art 2022 – Finalist