Artist Profile

Born 1987, Sydney, Australia

Lives & Works – Woonona (Bellambi, Dharawal)

 

Kelly creates paintings that linger between the essence of a subject and the experience of being. Clouded by the romanticism of remembering, her paintings are imbued with experience captured in vibrant strokes of colour and with swift brushwork. Kelly’s works, informed by an interest in literature and the discipline of painting, cast moments of shared stillness in an atmosphere of light. She says of her works “my desire is to push painting beyond a surface likeness of any subject and into the realm of poetics”.

 

Winner of the prestigious Evelyn Chapman Art Award (2024), the  Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2009) and the Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize (2018), Kelly is well recognised for her landscape, portraiture and still life painting. She has undertaken residencies in France (2019, 2018, 2017, 2010) and Spain (2016) and has completed major public commissions for the Sutherland and St George Hospitals in Sydney. Her work has been selected for inclusion in the Lester Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of WA (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015), Fisher's Ghost Art Award (2024, 2023), Goulburn Art Award (2024), Grace Cossington Smith Art Award (2023, 2022), Portia Geach Memorial Award (2021, 2020, 2019, 2015, 2014), Salon des Refusés (2023, 2020, 2019) and Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW (2015). Kelly’s work is held in the collections of the Moran Art Foundation and Lismore Regional Gallery, among others. She has also recently completed her Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales researching contemporary painting and poetic literature.

Exhibitions
Available Works
  • Nicole Kelly, Waterhole Gums, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    Waterhole Gums, 2024
    oil on polyester
    167.5 x 198 cm, 171 x 201 cm (framed)
    $16,000
  • Nicole Kelly, Orange path, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    Orange path, 2024
    oil on polyester
    138 x 167 cm, 140.5 x 169.5 cm (framed)
    $11,500
  • Nicole Kelly, Song To Bird Hour, 2023
    Nicole Kelly
    Song To Bird Hour, 2023
    oil on polyester
    121.5 x 137.5 cm, 123.5 x 139.5 cm (framed)
    $9,000
  • Nicole Kelly, To the birds (Ribbon of River), 2019
    Nicole Kelly
    To the birds (Ribbon of River), 2019
    oil on polyester
    107 x 84.5 cm, 109.5 x 86.5 cm (framed)
    $6,800
  • Nicole Kelly, White butterflies, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    White butterflies, 2024
    oil on polyester
    51 x 46 cm, 53.5 x 48.5 cm (framed)
    $4,500
  • Nicole Kelly, Blue Moonah, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    Blue Moonah, 2024
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 90 x 71 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, Pink Clouds, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    Pink Clouds, 2024
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 90 x 71 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, Black Cockatoos, 2023
    Nicole Kelly
    Black Cockatoos, 2023
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, By Light, 2023
    Nicole Kelly
    By Light, 2023
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, Patterns in Red, 2023
    Nicole Kelly
    Patterns in Red, 2023
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, Lake Holding, 2023
    Nicole Kelly
    Lake Holding, 2023
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, Before the Night, 2023
    Nicole Kelly
    Before the Night, 2023
    oil monoprint on paper
    76 x 56 cm, 86 x 66 cm (framed)
    $3,200
  • Nicole Kelly, From the Window, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    From the Window, 2024
    oil monoprint on paper
    38 x 27.5 cm, 50.5 x 40 cm (framed)
    $1,800
  • Nicole Kelly, In Rain, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    In Rain, 2024
    oil monoprint on paper
    38 x 27.5 cm, 50.5 x 40 cm (framed)
    $1,800
  • Nicole Kelly, Reflected Trees, 2024
    Nicole Kelly
    Reflected Trees, 2024
    oil on antique tin
    22 x 22 x 4 cm
    $1,250
  • Nicole Kelly, Books and Windows, 2022
    Nicole Kelly
    Books and Windows, 2022
    oil on polyester
    168 x 198.5 cm, 170 x 200.5 cm (framed)
    $16,000
  • Nicole Kelly, Brick Balcony, 2022
    Nicole Kelly
    Brick Balcony, 2022
    oil on polyester
    168 x 198.5 cm, 170 x 200.5 cm (framed)
    $16,000
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