Biography
Mimi Kelly's photographs explore nature and the experience of place as transposed through the body. Her most recent project (2024) developed out of a residency at Monmar (Point Nepean) through the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Artist-in-Residence Program. She uses analogue 35mm and medium format cameras and outdated film for the unexpected photographic flaws that add surreal, dream-like visual qualities. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and has undertaken residencies in Australia, Europe, and Asia. She worked for several years in contemporary art programming. She lives on the Bellawyn (Bellarine) and is a lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the University of Melbourne, Naarm. She writes for books, journals, magazines and gallery publications. Her scholarly research intersects art, popular culture and feminism.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which I work and live. The Wurundjeri, Boon Wurrung, and Wathaurong people of the Kulin Nation. I pay respects to Indigenous Elders past, present and emerging. Sovereignty was never ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.