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William Kelly installation Museum of Modern Art. Melbourne,  Australia


"Dialogue with ‘Guernica'”, Foru Plaza Guernica, 2007 - 2009

 

"TITUS". Set design for Melbourne International Festival

"Tiananmen Square Monument”. Bronze. 2009

This website gives a brief introduction to humanist artist William Kelly’s studio practice. It covers his work as a painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, as well as collaborative projects in public art and theatre. At the end of various sections there are contact points listed for additional source material and information about loans, copyright and purchase..


"Meeting his work can be cause for deep introspection - like lighting upon the open pages of a loved one's diary."

Christopher Saines,
Contemporary Australian Art/Catalogue 1987,  travelling exhibition, Japan and Australia


"In the tradition of artists like Kathe Kollwitz, Goya and Picasso, writers like Tolstoy and Hermann Hesse, and humanists like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Kelly encourages his audience to reflect on the issue of violence and the possibilities for action against it."

Julia Clinger, The Chautauquan, New York, 1994


"His processes are interrogative, non-judgemental, juxtaposed,  discontinuous. He offers a vast and complex narrative capable of many useful readings: a lively interaction between timeless moral philosophy and contemporary thought."

Jenny Zimmer, for catalogue, of William Kelly's exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia

“William Kelly explores human space and human images…and the poetry of markmaking.”

Janet McKenzie, ‘William Kelly: Artist as Peacemaker.’ In Studio International, London, Autumn, 2008


This site is managed by Artsco, c/o William Kelly Projects
PO Box 368, Prahran (Melbourne)
Australia, 3181.

kelly@williamkelly.com.au