The Peace Project >

A CONTEMPORARY TRAGEDY
The title of the exhibition dealing with the circumstances that surround the disaster of a mass murder.

Museum of Modern Art (Melbourne) June - July 1993

CATALOGUE with writings by Professor Duncan Chappell, Jenny Zimmer and Anna Clabburn (photo credits: John Brash)

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Installation detail
Museum of Modern Art, Australia

  In the Prologue to the exhibition Kelly has written "Events of human violence raise questions of who we are in relation to one another... Social systems require trust and faith in others..."

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Notations (detail).
One work comprising 39 drawings (each 38 x 56 cm)
Medium: charcoal and pastel on paper
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Detail in studio

 
"Kelly joins a number of other artists who've portrayed the victims of violence through imagery - Goya (Disasters of War), Picasso (Guernica), Kollwitz (The Uprising scenes) and Golub (Mercenaries series). These artists show us that art can play an integral role in civilizing and humanizing our universal society."

Robert Godfrey, "The Xpress", Asheville, North Carolina, USA

"This project aligns him somewhat with philosophers like Iris Murdoch and Alisdair MacIntyre; echoing the former's attention to moral details and the latter's linking of narrative histories within  the tradition of moral theory..."  

Jenny Zimmer (from the Catalogue)

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"X-Ray"
113 x 76 cm
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Car Panels
screenprint, pastel and charcoal on arches paper
6 images, each 76 x 113 cm
Collection:
McClelland Gallery, Langwarrin (Melbourne), Australia

"To see the work first hand...is to be moved in a way which strikes at the heart of our personal and community consciousness."

To see the work first hand...is to experience an educative process which brings forward the Artist as a most powerful communicator.

To see the work at first hand is to appreciate the authority of its author to be an outrider of our personal conscience."

John Sullivan, Opening Speech to commemorate the acquisition of the work "Car Panels" and the exhibition of "Prints from the Peace Project", McClelland Gallery, Australia, 22 May, 1994