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"Hollie M Kelley’s portraits explore contemporary surrealism through surprise juxtapositions, aiming to challenge notions of reality and serve to remind the viewer that perception is reality, life has light and dark, and time is fleeting. Hollie’s work expresses an ongoing interest in using personal memory and perception to create interesting new narratives and hyper real scenarios. Nomadic children, animals, and apocalyptic landscapes combine to serve as a metaphor for escape, from the mundane, the current times we are living in, and from reality."

HOLLIE M KELLEY
Born 1986, Albury NSW

e: hollie.maree99@gmail.com

w: http://ramblercollective.com

     http://holliemkelley.com

EDUCATION  
2007-2009   Bachelor Fine Art (Painting) with Honours, RMIT, Melbourne
2006          Diploma Fine Art, Latrobe College of Design, Melbourne

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011            Small Feet, Big Shoes, Window 99, Fitzroy, Melbourne

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012            The Borrowers, House of Bricks, Collingwood, Melbourne
2012          9x12 Budapest, Beata Szechys gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2012            Sleep and Wake, Egg Gallery, Collingwood, Melbourne

2012            Real Gone, Paradise Hills Gallery, Richmond, Melbourne

2011            Drawing 11B, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2011            Small works show, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2011            Drawn, curated by Laura Couttie, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2011            Group show, curated by Steph Shields, Latrobe Contemporary Gallery, Morwell
2010            Small works show, Brunswick Street Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
2010            Wondernamel, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2009            RMIT Graduate Painting Show, RMIT, Melbourne
2009            Black and White Show, Latrobe Contemporary Gallery, Morwell
2009            RMIT Painting Auction, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
2009            The Garage Show (with Ryan McGennisken), Yarraville, Melbourne
2009            Annual Fundraising Auction, First Site Gallery, Melbourne 
2008            The Entrepreneur Motivator Series, Fitzroy Lofts, Melbourne
2008            Annual Fundraising Auction, First Site Gallery, Melbourne
2006            Latrobe Graduate Show, Latrobe St Gallery, Melbourne
2006            Let Me Think In Pieces, Clunes Art Gallery, Clunes

AWARDS

2009            Entrepreneur Motivator Series, Fitzroy Lofts equisitive prize

RESIDENCIES

2012            Arteles Creative Center, Hameenkyro, Finland

2012            Latrobe Contemporary Gallery, Morwell, Gippsland

VOLUNTEERING 
2010          Hannah Bertram: ‘The Silence of Becoming and Disappearing’, artist assistant
2009          Hannah Bertram: ‘Now they are gone, I hold them’, Dianne Tanzer gallery, artist assistant                            
2008          Martin Boyce: ‘The Kaldor Project’, RMIT Alumni Courtyard

COLLECTIONS
Fitzroy Lofts, Melbourne Private collections in Australia, New York, Britain

COMMISSIONS 

2012              Dumbo Feather Magazine

Founding member of the Rambler Collective