BIO
My name is Meg Kelso, I am an Australian artist based in Naarm|Melbourne. My practice is my research, a reciprocal relationship between material storytelling and contemplation. I assimilate processes inclusive of painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and video, allowing each discipline to sit, extend and communicate with one another.
My making seeks harmony between the physicality of matter and intuitive formation, drawing on research on the fugitive nature of memory; how it is found, accumulated, fragmented and reconstructed. By negotiating material forms and embracing unknowability and chance in process, I explore themes of doubt, liminality and intimacy; using my practice to weave threads between the visible and not.
My making seeks harmony between the physicality of matter and intuitive formation, drawing on research on the fugitive nature of memory; how it is found, accumulated, fragmented and reconstructed. By negotiating material forms and embracing unknowability and chance in process, I explore themes of doubt, liminality and intimacy; using my practice to weave threads between the visible and not.
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EDUCATION
2025 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash University [current]
2024 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Royal Melbourne Intitute of Technology
2020 - Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (Painting & Printmaking), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2013 - Bachelor of Business (Marketing), University of the Sunshine Coast
RESIDENCIES 2023 - Q Bank Gallery, Queenstown Tasmania
SOLO EXHIBITS 2024 - I Think We Are Closer When We Meet This Way, 138 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Box of Rocks, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Soiree, Private Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITS
2024 - BUFF, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Coming Home, Strawberry Fields Bush Art Gallery, Tocomwal, Australia
2022 - Trace, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022 - VACANT Vol. 2, Upstairs of the Pinnacle Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
2021 - Arise, Oigall Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2020 - Any Colour You Like, Marfa Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
CURATION
2024 - BUFF, group show co-curated with myself, Isaac Lizardo & Riley Beaumont, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Coming Home, group show, Strawberry Fields Bush Art Gallery, Tocomwal, Australia
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS
2024 - Poster art for Kanvas Presents, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Posted Home; mural & live painting, Revolver Upstairs, Melbourne, Australia
2020 - Alone, Together; public art projection, Melbourne, Australia
2019 - Pink Moon; wine label design, Limus Wine, South Australia
AWARDS
2024 - Garland Membership Award (RMIT Graduation Exhibition)
PRESS
2024 - RMIT Art School Graduate Profile - access here
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin nation who are the traditional custodians of the land on which I create. I pay my respects to the Wurundjeri Elders, past, present and emerging, and acknowledge that this land was never ceded.2025 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours), Monash University [current]
2024 - Bachelor of Fine Art (Painting), Royal Melbourne Intitute of Technology
2020 - Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (Painting & Printmaking), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
2013 - Bachelor of Business (Marketing), University of the Sunshine Coast
RESIDENCIES 2023 - Q Bank Gallery, Queenstown Tasmania
SOLO EXHIBITS 2024 - I Think We Are Closer When We Meet This Way, 138 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Box of Rocks, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Soiree, Private Studio Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITS
2024 - BUFF, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Coming Home, Strawberry Fields Bush Art Gallery, Tocomwal, Australia
2022 - Trace, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2022 - VACANT Vol. 2, Upstairs of the Pinnacle Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
2021 - Arise, Oigall Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2020 - Any Colour You Like, Marfa Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
CURATION
2024 - BUFF, group show co-curated with myself, Isaac Lizardo & Riley Beaumont, Green Floor Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Coming Home, group show, Strawberry Fields Bush Art Gallery, Tocomwal, Australia
ADDITIONAL PROJECTS
2024 - Poster art for Kanvas Presents, Melbourne, Australia
2023 - Posted Home; mural & live painting, Revolver Upstairs, Melbourne, Australia
2020 - Alone, Together; public art projection, Melbourne, Australia
2019 - Pink Moon; wine label design, Limus Wine, South Australia
AWARDS
2024 - Garland Membership Award (RMIT Graduation Exhibition)
PRESS
2024 - RMIT Art School Graduate Profile - access here