Tender Cuts | Deborah Kelly

  • Deborah Kelly, New nature girls (we take the air)
  • Deborah Kelly, Hair piece #5, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, Hair piece #6, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Encyclical from the right hand, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Blake's engine, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, She ascends to rule by stealth, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, She eyes the throne, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, Milk maid, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, Ostere arises, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, She sings a song of air, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, Prey tell, soft suitor, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, She is holding it all together, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, She beseeches you, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Daddy's girl (Hettie), 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Breed Like Flies, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Allure of the slow raptor, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Dora's prescience, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, She attends her own birth, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, I come in pieces, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, Brooding stranger, 2009
  • Deborah Kelly, Down the generations, 2008
  • Deborah Kelly, Scuka, 2007

Tender Cuts
15 September - 09 October 2010

Kelly’s imagery mates & mutates ideas and pictorial elements salvaged (or savaged) from our collective visual vocabulary, unsettling both the biological and cultural imaginings of the Feminine. Exuberant iconoclasm arrests the spectator. These handmade collages in the Dada tradition confront new social realities. The safety of the everyday is chopped-up and we are forced to rethink our positions through her surgical incisions on the norm.