Bio
Kelly graduated from Ulster University with MA Fine Art in 1989, and alongside her studio practice, she has collaborated in projects with children, teachers, poets, writers, dancers, choreographers, athletes and boxers. Kelly is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Major Individual Artist Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland 2023; Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, International Printmaking Residency 2023; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA, 2022. In 2020 she was awarded the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship at The British School at Rome, which she completed in 2023.

Statement
Kelly works fluidly between 2 and 3D processes, incorporating drawing, painting, print, sculpture and video, exploring themes of fragility, resilience and transformation. She is concerned with the marking and mapping of human experience and her work mediates between memory and imagination.