23/04/2010

Madeleine Kelly

1977       Born, Freising, Germany. Lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. 

Tertiary Education:

2001       Bachelor of Secondary Education, Griffith University, Brisbane.

1999       Bachelor of Visual Arts with First Class Honours in Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

 Awards, prizes and grants:

2007       Artist in residence, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane.

2006       Metro Arts Artist in Residence (March – October 2006)

2004       Australia Council Arts and Crafts Paris Studio Residency Grant ($10 000) (For July, August and September 2005)

2004       Winner, Churchie Exhibition of Emerging Art ($5000)(Judge: Dr Rex Butler) 2003 Arts Queensland Project Grant ($5000)

2001       Arts Queensland Project Grant ($2700)

1998       Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship, Queensland Art Gallery (Studio Residency from 20 August – 20 December 1999)

 Employment:

2004 – 2008         Part time lecturer, Painting Department, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

 Solo Exhibitions:

2008       Heavy Heavenly Bodies, Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

2007       Dreams of Utopia, Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane.

2006       The Elephants’ Shelter, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

2005       Between expansion and collapse, April, Bellas Milani Gallery, Brisbane.

2003       Pursuit of the Prizefighter, September, Soapbox Gallery, Fortitude Valley

2003       Grounds for Entropy, August, Redlands Art Gallery, Redland Shire

2003       Fossilphilia, March, Metro Arts, Brisbane

2002       Mnemonics, Queensland Performing Arts Complex (Dec 2002-Feb 2003).

2001       Anatomy of a Metaphor, Modus Studios, Fortitude Valley

1999       Eclipse, Development Space, Metro Arts Brisbane. 

Group exhibitions:

2009       Temperature 2, Museum of Brisbane, curated by Frank Mc Bride

2007       Twenty Twenty, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane QLD, curated by Frank Mc Bride;

                Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney NSW, curated by Charles Green.

2006       ABN Amro Emerging Art Award, Finalists Exhibition, Sydney NSW;

Colonial to Contemporary: Queensland College of Art 125 Years. A Contemporary Overview, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, curated by Timothy Morrell;

Primavera, Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Muswellbrook, NSW, curated by Felicity Fenner (travelling)

                Animals and Allegory, curated by Simone Jones, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane, QLD,

2005       Primavera 2005: Exhibition by Young Australian Artists, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, curated by Felicity Fenner.

                Arc Biennial, Lingua Franca Exhibition, Brisbane City Hall.

                The Sixth of May, Project gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.

2004       Blur, Cleveland Gallery and Dell Gallery Brisbane.

                Brett Whiteley Traveling Art Scholarship Finalists Exhibition, Brett Whiteley Studios, Sydney.

                Flesh, Project gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.

                A Place for Reflection, Redland Art Gallery.

                Churchie Emerging Art Prize, Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane. 

 Bibliography:

2008       Timothy Morrell The error of our ways: Madeleine Kelly, Artlink, vol. 28 no. 1 March 2008, pp. 60-65.

2007       Felicity Fenner, The Nature of Art, Art and Australia, Vol 44, No.3, Autumn.

2006       Timothy Morrell & Glenn R Cooke, Colonial to Contemporary: Queensland College of Art 125 Years, p26; Andrew Frost, Madeleine Kelly, 50 of Australia’s most collectable artists, Australian Art Collector, Issue 35, January-March p105

2005       Rex Butler, Art in Australia, Art Review, Vol 43, No.2, Summer, p277 Sebastian Smee, Spring Loaded, The Weekend Australia, 17-18 September;

Tracey Clement, Cleanse the Palette, The Sydney Morning Herald Metro: Exhibitions, p26, September;

John McDonald, Isn’t it Ironic? The Sydney Morning Herald – Spectrum, Visual Art, 15-16 October p28 – 29;

Art Matters (MCA’s Members’ Newsletter), Cover Image, Spring; Art Matters, Primavera: Exhibition by Young Australian Artists;

                Felicity Fenner, Primavera: Exhibition by Young Australian Artists, Exhibition Catalogue.

2004       Sally Brand, Painting Modern Life, Exhibition Catalogue for Blur, December, p. 6 – 16.

Rosemary Sorensen, Top painting a confronting image of Iraq, The Courier Mail, Saturday May 15, p. 3.

2003       Sandra McLean, Art from the Ashes, The Courier Mail, Saturday September 6, BAM p.4.

Rex Butler, Review: Spooky work by fresh new talent, The Courier Mail, Saturday August 23, BAM p.4.

Kim Machan, Art Monthly Australia, Artnotes QLD, March no 157 p. 157. Josh Milani, ex cat. (Fossilphilia), On the transformation of oil.

                Hannah Brooks, Review: Oil Painting, The Courier Mail, March 11 2003, p. 17.

2001       Pat Hoffie, Artlink, Review: Anatomy of a Metaphor, Vol 21 No 2 pp. 86-87.

Collections:

Artbank, Sydney

Gadens Lawyers, Brisbane

Griffith University, Brisbane

The Paul Eliadis Collection of Contemporary Australian Art

KPMG, Sydney

UBS, Sydney

Numerous private collections around Australia.

The artist is represented by MILANI Gallery, Brisbane.