BIO
My name is Meg Kelso (b. Rabaul, Papua New Guinea 1992) and I am a visual artist currently completing my BFA at RMIT, based and practicing in Naarm.
My practise is interdisciplinary, but generally sits between expanded painting and ad-hoc printmaking, often using one to extend or communicate with the other.
Informed by process art and materiality, my making seeks harmony between the physicality of the medium and intuitive formation. Negotiating these material forms, my creative research draws largely on personal memory; how it is found, fragmented and reconstructed - and how this shapes my interior landscape.
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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