WENDY KELLY

Factory 49 49 Shepherd St, Marrickville, Sydney 2204 hours: Thurs - Sat, 1-6 pm (+61) 2 9572 9863 factory49@optusnet.com.au factory49.blogspot.com

30 May (opening 6-8pm) to 9 June 2012

Installation 2012

Wendy Kelly’s paintings explore a subtle geometry substrate within an “almost monochrome” approach. At a distance they form a homage to the minimalist aesthetic, but a closer view reveals mesmerizing complex processes and details.

Using thread to construct a complex lineal structure minimalism’s influences are explored and developed

Kyoto Falls 1. 2. 3. 4. 2011 mixed technique on canvas, 41 x 30.5 cm

in two post-minimalist ways. Firstly, the complex multi layering of lines play with light through texture and depth with multiple glazes. Secondly, by the addition of further collage in the form of text or music scores, (preferably antiquarian and non narrative in nature). This is subverted to a point of un-readability by the veiling with rice paper and glazing which leaves only a suggestion of the word or the rhythm of the print.

Surface shifts (detail) 2012 Mixed technique on canvas. (Dictionary pages circa 1942 thread (part

removed) rice paper, graphite on canvas), 120 x 44 cm

2011 Adjunct Research Associate, Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne2010 PhD, Monash University1993 Graduate Diploma Fine Art Monash University1978 Diploma of Art and Design/Fine Art Caulfield Institute of TechnologySOLO EXHIBITIONS1981-2012 more than 20 solo exhibitions, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane.PUBLICATIONSAbstraction and its Processes: An Historical and Practical Investigation into Abstract visual Language. LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH and Co. KG. Saarbrücken, Germany 2011Duyan, Efe, Ed New Questions on Contemporary Art Dakam Publishing, Istanbul 2012AWARDS, GRANTS AND STUDIO RESIDENCIES2007 Monash University Postgraduate Travel Grant Award2001 The Church Gallery, Perth, residency and exhibition2000 N.S.W. Ministry for the Arts, The Gunnery, Woolloomooloo 1989 Australia Council, V.A.C.B. Artists Development Project GrantCOLLECTIONSNational Gallery of Victoria, Art Bank, Monash University Library, Artists Book Collection, Caulfield Campus, La Trobe University Collection, University of Southern Queensland, Private collections.SELECT CURATED GROUP AND TOURING EXHIBITIONS 2010 Lineate Factory 49 Sydney 2009 Folk 1 SNO Contemporary Art Space, Sydney. Curator Dr Billy Grunner2007 2008 The Space Between, VCA Gallery, Bendigo Regional Gallery. Curator, Tara Gilbee2003 The Future in every Direction, Joan Clemenger Endowment, Ian Potter Centre NGV 2002 Indecorous Abstraction, Adelaide and Sydney. Curator, Dr Margo Osbourne 1987 Domestic Contradictions, Sydney, A.C.T., Shepparton and Adelaide. Curator Julie Ewington2003 Dialogue 2pi r Group Exhibition, Monash University Gallery, Prato, Italy2000 On the brink, abstraction in the 90’s Heide Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Kelly Gellatlywww.wendykelly.com.au

ISBN 978-0-9873222-0-3 1st edition of 50 Photographs by Marlene Sarroff Design by Pam Aitken May 2012 ©

Where has the music gone? 2012 thread, music score, thread, rice paper , acrylic, (thread removed) oil on canvas

Four panels each 120 x 44 cm