CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2015 University of South Australia, Masters in Research, Visual Arts.
2012 University of South Australia, Honours, Bachelor of Visual Arts.
2011 Adelaide College of the Arts, Bachelor of Visual Arts and Design.
2006 Swedish language, Folkuniversitet, Umeå, Sweden.
Awards/grants
2020 National Assistance Program for the Arts, Meyer Foundation.
Finalist, Glover Art Prize, Evandale Tasmania.
2018 Finalist, Waterhouse Natural Science Prize, South Australian Museum.
2017 Arts SA Independent Makers and Presenters, Professional Development Grant, Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Ballycastle,
North Mayo, Republic of Ireland.
2016 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Ballycastle, North Mayo, Republic of Ireland.
2015 Arts SA project grant, Through a Glass Darkly.
Helpmann Academy of Visual and Performing Arts Grant, Landscape and Dissonance.
2014 Friends of the South Australian School of Art International Traveling Scholarship.
2013 University of South Australia, University Merit Award 2012.
2012 AustralianPostgraduate Award.
National Association for the Visual Arts Ignition award for Art Practice.
TAFE South Australia Higher Education Principal Officer’s merit Award.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 2022 Dark Things in Dark Places, South Australia Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide SA.
2018 Aldinga,Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA.
2017 Walking Backwards, Sauerbier House Gallery, Port Noarlunga, SA.
Consonance,Ballinglen Arts Foundation Gallery, Mayo, Republic of Ireland.
2016 Landscape and Dissonance, Format Gallery, Adelaide, SA.
2015 Through a Glass Darkly, Sawtooth Gallery, Launceston, Tasmania.
Hidden in Plain Sight, Liverpool Street Gallery, University of South Australia.
2013 Reimagining the Aeneid, Rare Books & Special Collections, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide, SA.
Group exhibitions
2023 Wooden Boats, The Strand Gallery Port Elliot, SA.
2021 Medicinal Tales, Museum of Economic Botany, Adelaide Botanic Gardens
2020 28 Years Rambling through the Landscape, Inaugural Exhibition, Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art, Republic of Ireland.
Mayo Landscape: Artists View, Turlough House Museum, Republic of Ireland, (online).
Glover Art Prize Exhibition, Evandale Tasmania.
2019 Defining Moments, The Strand Gallery, Port Elliot SA.
2018 Collaborative Variations, Gallery 1855, SA.
Green Bay, The Strand Gallery, Port Elliot, SA.
Commorancy,West Gallery Thebarton, SA.
Message in a Bottle, folio exhibition, Artlab, SA.
2017 Monumental,West Gallery Thebarton, SA.
2016 We are all Connected, West Gallery Thebarton, SA.
Botanica,National Wine Centre, Adelaide.
Selected Works Margie Sheppard and Christobel Kelly, West Gallery, Thebarton, SA.
Curator, Afterlife, West Gallery, Thebarton SA.
Scratched and Pierced, Gallery 1855, Adelaide, SA.
Vitrine,Barr Smith Library, Rare Books & Special Collections University of Adelaide, SA.
2015 The Third Space, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide.
Inked,Gallery 1855, Tea Tree Gully SA.
2014 Scratching the Surface, Liverpool Street Gallery, University of South Australia.
Maestros & Apprentices2014, Helpmann Academy, Adelaide Convention Centre, SA.
Vinegar and Vitriol, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide.
2013 Curator, Geographica,Light Square Gallery, Adelaide.
Maestros and Apprentices 2013, Helpmann Academy,Adelaide Convention Centre, SA.
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition 2013,Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide, SA.
2012 Hunt, SASA Gallery, University of South Australia, City West.
Helpmann Academy Graduate Exhibition 2012,Drill Hall, Torrens Parade Ground, Adelaide, SA.
International Print Day in May, Magpie Studio, Belair, SA.
2011 Tooth and Nail Grand Opening,Tooth and Nail Gallery, Adelaide, SA.
I was here, Light Square Gallery, Adelaide SA.
All Rise, SALA, Court House Gallery, Normanville SA.
Beguiled, Hill Smith Gallery, Adelaide, SA.
Maestros & Apprentices2011, Helpmann Academy, Adelaide Convention Centre, SA.
2010 Border Crossing, International Collaborative Exhibition, (Australia, Thailand, New Zealand).
2009 Print Forum Exhibition, Print Council of Australia, Adelaide College of the Arts, SA.
Bibliography
2018. Dr Catherine Speck, Professor of Art History, University of Adelaide, Christobel Kelly, Aldinga.
2016 Zagala, Maria, “Christobel Kelly”, Imprint, Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 2016, Volume 51 Issue 1.
Dr. Julie Henderson, Valley of Labours and Joys, essay to accompany the exhibition, Landscape and Dissonance.
Publications
2020 “Winter Landscape” in Fleurieu Living, winter, 2020.
2018 “Colonial and Gothic Dissonance: Tracing Desire Lines Through Post Colonial Landscape”, in Intervening Spaces,
Respatialisation and the Body, edited by N Prowse, Brill, Rodopi, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2018.
2017 Voyages and Fictions, Imprint, Journal of the Print Council of Australia, Volume 52 number 3.
2016 The Complex Bargain: Animals and Humans,Imprint, review of exhibition,
A Covenant with the Animals, Murray Bridge Regional Gallery.
“Hidden in Plain Sight: an Investigation of the Walked Landscape and Desire Lines”,
in Time Space and the Human Body: an Interdisciplinary Look, edited by R Narváez and L Mallard, Inter-Disciplinary Press,
Oxford, United Kingdom, 2016.
2015 Matrix,Imprint, Journal of the Print Council of Australia, 2015, Volume 50, number 1.
2012 Wolfgirl: The Making of an Artist's Book, and the Movement of Letterpress into the Realm of Fine Art,International Journal of the Book.
Higher Degrees Research Forum: Remembering The Aeneid:How the Chronotype of the Savage Child Informs our Understanding of the Abject,
University of South Australia.
Residencies
2019 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Ballycastle, North Mayo, Republic of Ireland.
2017 Sauerbier House, Artist in Residence, Port Noarlunga, SA.
Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship, Ballycastle, North Mayo, Republic of Ireland.
2015 Kings Bridge Cottage Residency, City of Launceston, Tasmania in conjunction with Sawtooth Gallery.
2014/16 Art Gallery of South Australia, research residency, The Witnesswith Ross Gibson and Maria Zagala.
Professional Experience
2017 Research at the National Gallery Ireland, Prints and Drawings Room, Dublin, Republic of Ireland.
Second Historical Fictions Research Conference, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, United Kingdom.
Presentation of paper, Classical Motif in Australia: the Inverted Gaze.
2015 Second Biennial GANZAConference, Darling Harbour, Sydney.
Presentation of paper, Landscape and Dissonance: Remembering the Star of Greece.
The Known World: 8th Australian Print Symposium, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
2012 Tenth International Conference on The Book, Universidad Abat Oliba Barcelona.
Presentation of paper, Wolfgirl: The Making of an Artist's Book, and the Movement of Letterpress into the Realm of Fine Art
2011 Impact 7: International Multi-disciplinary printmaking conference Intersections & Counterpoints, Monash University, Melbourne.
Memberships
Print Council of Australia.
National Association for the Visual Arts.
Fellow of the Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Republic of Ireland.
Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, University of Adelaide Collection,City of Onkaparinga, SA, Ballinglen Contemporary Arts Museum, Republic of Ireland, SF Electric Works, San Francisco, California, the San Francisco Centre for the Book, California, Blue Mouse Studio Monteray, California.