
Siobhan Kelley lives and works on Boonwurrung Bunurong Country. Her practice spans three interconnected elements: plein air painting, studio painting, and sewn works. Working outdoors, she paints the foreshores, back beaches, and grasslands near her home, responding to light, colour, and form with acrylics. These studies inform her studio paintings, which draw from photographs and memory to create works ranging from bold, graphic compositions to organic, atmospheric reflections. Alongside painting, Kelley has intermittently explored hand-sewn works on paper for over thirty years, stitching images inspired by urban materials such as weatherboard, brick, and corrugated iron.
Kelley has undertaken residencies at The Gatekeepers Cottage, Police Point, the Melbourne Aquarium, Courthouse Gallery + Studio in Port Hedland, and Artist House in Carnamah. She holds a Master of Visual Arts from the Victorian College of the Arts (2006) and has been shortlisted for major prizes, including the John Leslie, Glover, and Mosman Art Prizes.
Exhibitions
Salon: Scape #2 (Group Exhibition)Project type
Siobhan Kelly 'Melange'Project type
Salon: Only Human #2 (Group Exhibition)Project type
Emma BorlandProject type
Peter Robertson 'IN CASSUM'Project type
Nick Herd 'The Story of the Wind'Project type
Bern Barry 'Distraction by Abstration'Project type
Ashley Crawford 'Memorial Exhibition'Project type
Mark Schaller 'Arid Bloom'Project type
Connor Grogran 'HYPERCENE'Project type
Darren Tanny Tan 'Afterimage'Project type
Kana Philip 'Irreversible Presence'Project type
Mitchell McAuley 'Scratching Lines'Project type
In StillnessProject type
Francisco Tavoni 'The Source'Project type
Su Baker 'Apparent Structures'Project type
Jane Burns 'Movement (Arrest)Exhibition
Tal Fitzpatrick 'Space Won't Save Us'Upcoming: 16 June - 12 July
Amanda MorganProject type
Joan LetchersProject type
FIGMENTSProject type
ALIENATION 疏离Project type
The Lennox Award Recipient: Dominic KavanaghProject type
Bertie Blackman 'Night Time, My Time'Project type
Su Baker 'New Works on Paper'Project type
Sarah Berners - AnesthesiaExhibition
Nathalie Dumont —Terra TechnicolourExhibition
Moya Delany – dreamcargoExhibition
INTOMISSIONExhibition
Lisa RoetExhibition
Marc De Jong – Overlay PaintingsExhibition
Francisco TavoniExhibition
Ryan McGennisken ‘Supergrime’Exhibition
'In The Shadows’ Lindberg GalleryExhibition
Tony Irving- West Coast (Another Place)Exhibition