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 ViewTurlough 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 7International 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.