BIO
My name is Meg Kelso (b. Papua New Guinea 1992) and 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.
Informed by aspects of new materialism and object-oriented ontology; my making seeks harmony between the physicality of matter and intuitive formation. My research draws 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.
Informed by aspects of new materialism and object-oriented ontology; my making seeks harmony between the physicality of matter and intuitive formation. My research draws 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
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
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.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