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Born in 1989 in Sydney, Australia
Currently works and resides in Sydney, Australia

Awards/Education

2023 Finalist, Burwood Art Prize, Sydney, AU
2015 Bachelor of Film Production (Honours - First Class) SAE, Sydney, AU

Exhibitions

2024 Neither Dream, Nor Delusion, China Heights, Sydney, AU. 2023 Burwood Art Prize, Sydney, AU
2023 It Was Written, Abstract Thoughts, Sydney AU
2022 I Wish God Was Alive To See This, Nano Gallery, Sydney. AU
2020 Love Matilda, Goodspace, Sydney, AU
2018 Omni Salvation, Center Red , Moscow, RU
2017 Twistmas, Marthouse, Melbourne, AU

BIO

Wade Kelly (b .1989) is multidisciplinary conceptual artist currently living and working in Sydney, Australia. Completing a Bachelor of Film Production in 2015 his practice moves fluidly between painting, sculpture and installation exploring themes of sex, success, power structures, cult of personality and existentialism.

Kelly forms abstract compositions through expressionist gestures often overlaid with text. Drawing from personal history and the digital landscape words serve as symbols offering multiple readings. Lines of sardonic self-aware poetic confessionals accentuate the concept of the personal truth in the Information Age as the foundations of capitalism falter. Doublethink is prevalent in the dichotomous media storm that is contem- porary experience, employing this rhetoric Kelly brings to light the malleable nature of language often with a tongue in cheek nod to his broader perception on how we convey ideas and at the centre of it all is a desire for understanding.

Forgoing the direct nature of text and extending further into the conceptual, Kelly engages the embedded his- tory and dormant energy of found objects as well as the readymade in his sculptural and installation aspects of his practice. By injecting new meaning into the banal through provocative arrangements of domestic and industrial objects Kelly aims to redefine contextual boundaries with the intention of activating the audience, object, space and time lending to his investigation of spatial and temporal elements within his practice.