NICOLE KELLY – Reflected trees

NICOLE KELLY
Reflected trees
oil on polyester
53.5 x 48.5 cm (framed)

Nicole Kelly creates paintings that linger between the essence of a subject and the experience of being. Her works are autobiographical expressions of recent experiences in Bundanon (NSW), Tasmania and Provence (France), functioning as tangible footprints along well-trodden roads winding through the artist’s memory.

Winner of the prestigious Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2009) and the Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize (2018), Kelly is well recognised for her landscape, portraiture and still life painting. She has undertaken residencies in France (2019, 2018, 2017, 2010) and Spain (2016) and has completed major public commissions for the Sutherland and St George Hospitals in Sydney. Her work has been selected for inclusion in the Lester Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of WA (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015), Portia Geach Memorial Award (2019, 2015, 2014), Salon des Refuses (2019) and Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW (2015). Kelly’s work is held in the collections of the Moran Art Foundation and Lismore Regional Gallery, among others. She is currently completing her Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales where she is undertaking research in contemporary painting and poetic literature.

Nicole Kelly has chosen to donate 100% of the proceeds from this work to the WWF - Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund.

WWF has launched a global Australian Wildlife and Nature Recovery Fund to supply urgent care to wildlife organisations. Across the country, over 10 million hectares of Australian land has been burned to the ground. Over 1 billion animals have lost their lives so far, including thousands of koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, birds and other iconic wildlife. Your support is urgently needed to care for injured wildlife and restore their homes. 

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