I am a visual artist, photographer and creative producer living and working in Naarm (Melbourne). My photographic practice is centred around moments of connection through a deep interest in the ephemeral nature of the everyday. Within my broader art practice I use analogue and alternative photographic processes to explore our complex relationship to the photographic image, an interrogation of its materiality, and its connection to time, memory, presence and absence.
For commissions or print sales - phoebejkelly@outlook.com
For all licensing enquiries - licensing@kintzing.com
Instagram- @phoebejkelly
Awards and Funding
2025 - The Ian Potter Cultural Trust, Visual Arts Grantee
2024 - National Photographic Portrait Prize Finalist, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2024 - Head On Portrait Prize semi-finalist
2021 - IRIS Award Finalist, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2021 - SUNStudios Emerging Photographer Award Finalist
2020 - City of Melbourne Quick Response Art Grant, Melbourne City Council
2017 - Eyeline Publishing Limited prize, awarded at the Visual Arts Graduation Exhibition, Queensland University of Technology
Residencies
2025 - Casa Lu Residency, Mexico City
2024 - PhotoAccess Dark Matter Residency, Canberra
Exhibitions
2025 - Desire Lines, Casa Lu, Mexico City
2024 - Photo Access Dark Matter Residency Exhibition
2024 - National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
2024 - Reality and its Double, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2024 - Hold on, DRIVER ARI, Melbourne
2023 - The Politics of Snails, IN ARI, Maroochydore, QLD
2023 - Collective Breath, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne (in collaboration with Nikhil James Arlo and Chloe Arnott)
2023 - d’shut Art Salon #1, d’shut ARI, Melbourne
2023 - Last Milk, MILK Gallery, Melbourne
2022 - Vanishing Points, Stable ARI, Brisbane
2021 - BLINDSIDE B-SIDE 2021, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2021 - light marks, COOLCHANGE Contemporary Gallery, Perth
2021 - IRIS Award Finalist exhibition, Perth Centre for Photography, Perth
2019 - VCA Graduate Exhibition, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2018 - Hatched National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth
2017 - On-Sight, Queensland University of Technology,Brisbane
2017 - Little Secrets Little Lies, Paddington Substation Gallery, Brisbane
2017 - Negative Feedback, Curated by George Muncey, Printspace Gallery, London, UK
2017 - Tensions, Frank Moran Gallery, Brisbane
2017 - 1 Degrees // 2 Degrees, BSAF, Brisbane Powerhouse
2017 - Wild Wonders, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne
2016 - Surface and Reality, Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield
2016 - Suss it Out, Hassel Studios, Brisbane
2016 - Gender Gaze, Brisbane Festival, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2016 - Tender Turf, Hassel Studios, Brisbane
Publications
2024 - 20,000 Return, self-published zine for the Photo 2024 Festival PhotoBook Fair.
2018 - Somewhere Else, self-published zine.
Project Participation
2020 - 'Abyss Lessons: Vortexual Thinking amidst the Ecological Turn', Bus Projects, Melbourne
2020 - Draw In: Round 2, created and run by Kari Lee McInneny-Mcrae and Brigit Ryan, VIC
Selected Professional Experience
2024 - Co-director of DRIVER ARI
2024 - 2025, Associate Producer, MPavilion
2023 - 2024, Festival Officer, Merri-bek City Council
2022 - 2023, Associator Producer, RISING Festival
2022 - Artist Support Coordinator, MILK Artist Run Initiative
2021- 2023, Programming Assistant, RISING Festival
2019 - 2021 Volunteer, Bus Projects
2018 Office Assistant, Frieze Masters
2018 Studio Assistant, Shoreditch Studios, London
2018 Gallery Assistant, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
Bibliography
2024 Transference Magazine Feature for 20,000 Return
2018 In Residence ARI, "Interview: Phoebe Kelly", Soph Kubler.
2017 1 DEGREE//2DEGREES, exhibition magazine, 'Phoebe Kelly', Remi Roehrs (e.d.).
2017 Inbtwn Magazine, Issue 2
2017 Decorated Youth Magazine, Issue 16
2017 Ibis Zine, Issue 6
2016 Gender Gaze, Open Category Runner up, Metro Arts
2016 F-Stop Magazine, Human Body, Issue 79
2016 Ibis Zine, Issue 5
I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I work and live, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging. I recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded.