Lily Kellahan Curriculum Vitae
email: lilykellahan@gmail.com
phone: +61 (0)417774154
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lilykellahan/
Education
Bachelor of Creative Arts (BCA) (Fine Art) Curtin University (currently enrolled)
Western Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) Seton Catholic College
Profile
Lily is an emerging artist currently based in Boorloo (Perth). Her practice encompasses ideas of corporeality, tangibility and bridging the connection between subject matter and viewer. By mining digital mapping platforms, such as google earth, Lily assembles scenes and tableaus of figures interacting with each other, their surroundings, and the viewer. Lily then translates these scenes to large-scale supports and uses the vibrancy and materiality of oil paint to construct images in a painterly, thick and fluid manner with an intensity of colour. Lily spends time with these figures, and aims to sculpt them through paint, utilising colours that are somewhat fantastical, artificial and surreal, to explore the way we are able to connect with the ‘other’ on a mere screen of blue light. Lily’s practise is an investigation of the way these platforms document temporalities that dismantle and converge, by examining the existence of the body within them.
Exhibitions, Publications and Curated shows
2023
Degree Show, Curtin University, 2023
2023
One Five Zero, Rook ARI, Carlisle, Vic Park
2023
Little While, Old Customs House, Fremantle (Artsource)
2023
30x30 Art Auction/Exhibition, Curtin University
2022
Pete Vile Drawing Prize, Curtin University
2022
Fields of Work Exhibition, Curtin University
2022
City of South Perth Emerging Artist Award, South Perth Community Hall, Perth
2021
Pulse Perspectives, The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2021
Creative Minds, YMCA HQ Gallery, Leederville, Perth
2020
Brother Francis Exhibition, Seton Catholic College, Samson, Perth
2020
St. George’s Cathedral Art Exhibition, St. George’s Cathedral (Virtual Exhibition), Perth
2019
Brother Francis Exhibition, Seton Catholic College, Samson, Perth
2019
St. George’s Cathedral Art Exhibition, St. George’s Cathedral, Perth
2018
Brother Francis Exhibition, Seton Catholic College, Samson, Perth
2017
Brother Francis Exhibition, Seton Catholic College, Samson, Perth
2017
Atwell Youth Art Awards, Atwell Gallery, Atwell, Perth
Grants/Awards
2022
Fine Art Award, Curtin University
2021
People’s Choice Award, Pulse Perspectives
2020
Brother Francis Award, Brother Francis Exhibition
2019
Senior Visual Art Award, Brother Francis Exhibition
2017
Highly Commended, Atwell Youth Arts Awards
2017
Certificate of Excellence for Visual Arts, Seton Catholic College
Professional Development Experience
2023
Degree Show Coordinator for Curtin University Degree Show 2023
2023
Volunteer at Kent Street Gallery
2022-23
Instructor/Manager at Cabernet and Canvas (Social Painting and Craft Company)
2022
Curator for Exhibition ‘Fields of Work’, at Curtin University
