Posters by Deborah Kelly

PXX 127

fonds

2001-2023

Graphic Materials, Posters

9682052

15 posters - 85 x 62 cm or smaller

Deborah Kelly was born in Melbourne in 1962. She worked as a cartoonist in the 1980s, represented in The Heidelberg School Picnic exhibition at the State Library of Victoria in 1985, and began making socially engaged artwork from 1983 which has been displayed in art galleries, public spaces and print media in Australia and internationally. She is a founding member of boat-people.org, a group of Sydney-based art and media workers who collaborate on public work about issues of race, history and borders. She completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of New South Wales in 2016.

References:
Design & Art Australia Online. "Ms Deborah Kelly". Accessed 15 August 2024. https://www.daao.org.au/bio/deborah-kelly/biography/

Wikipedia. "Deborah Kelly". Accessed 15 August 2024. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Kelly

'Hey, Hetero!' exhibited in various locations across Sydney and Adelaide 2001; Melbourne 2002; Wellington, New Zealand and New York, USA 2002; Brisbane 2003; Glasgow, 2006; Berlin 2007; Nicosia, Cyprus 2008; Minneapolis, USA 2010; Claremont, California, USA 2011; Ballarat and Darwin 2013; Skopje, North Macedonia 2013; Ljubljana, Slovenia 2014; Thessaloniki, Greece 2015; Penrith 2016; Castlemaine and Melbourne 2017; Newcastle 2021 'Are we there yet? (La Lucha Continua)' exhibited in Future Feminist Archive - LIVE! Wollongong Art Gallery, 2019 'Coal is Over!' exhibited in The Art of Protest, Newcastle Art Gallery, 2020-21

15 inkjet on paper printed posters and 7 printed cards by Deborah Kelly.

'Hey, hetero!' 2001
9 posters and 7 printed cards poking fun at the entrenched societal ideal of heteronormative relationships, created with Tina Fiveash.
“Membership has privileges”/ “You can do it with your eyes closed”/”Get married because you can!”/”When they say family they mean you”/”Bashers target straights in 0.05% of sexuality-motivated attacks”/”Have a baby ; No national debate”

'Are we there yet? (La Lucha Continua)' 2016
1 poster reflecting on women's struggles for equal pay and equality in the workplace, built around a photograph of women at the Equal Pay Protest in Melbourne, Victoria on 20 February 1969

'Coal is Over!' 2019
2 posters inspired by the song 'War is Over! (if you want it)' by John Lennon and Yoko Ono to comment on continued coal mining in Australia when alternative energy solutions are existent and available.

'CREATION' 2020-23
3 posters to promote CREATION, a multi-dimensional and cross-disciplinary project encompassing performance, visual arts, design, dance, food, music and literature in in collaboration with metropolitan and regional communities and institutions in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria.

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Deborah Kelly
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

11 posters individually signed and dated by Deborah Kelly in lower right corners.