PUBLIC ART / ARCHITECTURE & THEATRE (A SURVEY)
"[Kelly has] a passion for both the 'fictional' world of the canvas and the 'real' world of urban spaces. Kelly appears to move between them with equanimity."
Professor Ricardo Viera |
"The Renaissance roots are still there as is the allusion to the metaphysics of deChirico and the geometric stillness of Oskar Schlemmer with whom [Kelly] also shares an interest in theatre and movement."
Robert Godfrey, catalogue introduction, Gerstman-Abdullah Gallery, Cologne, Germany` |
William Kelly has participated in numerous public art, theatre, urban planning, dance and landscape projects. The following examples indicate part of this range.
THE TOWER
The Tower: A Monument to Migration and Aspirations
Recipient: Australian Metal Building Award 1998, for "excellence in design".
"It is a work of art which can be enjoyed and experienced at a number of levels - aesthetically, environmentally and culturally. [It] encompasses the migrant experience of departure, change, weariness, and renewal and also the indigenous aboriginal experience of loss, pride and reconciliation."
Arts 21 Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
"The Tower is a marriage of the best of public art design and environment friendly technology... The low voltage wind and solar power system symbolises our need to be attentive to environmental and energy issues.
Kelly also specified the use of environmentally benign construction methods and materials."
ReNew Magazine, Melbourne , Jan-March 1998
Recipient: Australian Metal Building Award 1998, for "excellence in design".
"It is a work of art which can be enjoyed and experienced at a number of levels - aesthetically, environmentally and culturally. [It] encompasses the migrant experience of departure, change, weariness, and renewal and also the indigenous aboriginal experience of loss, pride and reconciliation."
Arts 21 Magazine, Melbourne, Australia
"The Tower is a marriage of the best of public art design and environment friendly technology... The low voltage wind and solar power system symbolises our need to be attentive to environmental and energy issues.
Kelly also specified the use of environmentally benign construction methods and materials."
ReNew Magazine, Melbourne , Jan-March 1998
TIANANMEN SQUARE MONUMENT
WESTGATE PARK
Westgate Park - Phase I
Collaborative Design Project 1984-1986 with Loder & Bayly Landscape Architects and Bruce McKenzie Landscape Architects: Design Team - Bill Chandler, Nick Safstrom, Bill Gregory and William Kelly. |
Westgate Park - Phase II
1987 - 1991 with the Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works including James Duncan, Suellen Fitzgerald and Bill Gregory. |
Sightline Project: William Kelly
"Creating an optical illusion of one element while passing on the Westgate Bridge, it is actually a linked series of functional park structures...Through proposed mapping and computer links it will establish a network offering enormous educational possibilities for children and communities globally to participate in urban design, conservation and wildlife projects." from the "Sightline Brochure" published by the Board of Works. |
PLAZA OF FIRE AND LIGHT
Installation images in the civic plaza of Gernika (Guernica) Spain as central event in the commemoration of the bombing of Gernika.
ALL NATIONS PARK
Images of All Nations Park in progress and opening ceremony. This park celebrates the diversity of background and shared aspirations for the future of the community of Darebin (Melbourne) Australia. A collaborative design project with Collie Landscape and Design. Principal Landscape Architect Rob Cooper and William Kelly.
BALACLAVA COMMUNITY HOUSING
THE EXECUTION OF STEELE RUDD
Written by Harry Reade
Dir. Ken Campbell-Dobbie
Playbox Theatre Company
(Melbourne) early 1980's
"Kelly's set imprisons everybody, and this is precisely the play's theme; the moral dilemmas, the class structures which imprison us keep us from acting out our beliefs. As set designer, Kelly keeps us locked into those dilemmas."
Memory Holloway in "The Age", Melbourne.
Dir. Ken Campbell-Dobbie
Playbox Theatre Company
(Melbourne) early 1980's
"Kelly's set imprisons everybody, and this is precisely the play's theme; the moral dilemmas, the class structures which imprison us keep us from acting out our beliefs. As set designer, Kelly keeps us locked into those dilemmas."
Memory Holloway in "The Age", Melbourne.
DANCE FROM THE PEACE PROJECT
This is a very special collaboration that has suffered a slow evolution as a result of the difficulties of distance.
Peter Sparling (choreographer) and former principal dancer with the the Martha Graham Company, NYC and William Kelly in distant Australia. |