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Kelly Ballett

London
Kelly Ballett (b. London 1990)

‘It takes 30 minutes to an hour for the wings to flatten out and become something like an image, a flat surface with reflective parts here and there. That’s it’s survival strategy, people don’t eat butterflies, they read pictorial qualities as metaphors for beauty/mystery’ -Joseph Strau

I am concerned with sculptural problems and image taxonomy; how material becomes shaped, and where to draw its boundaries in a post-conceptual field. Using decoys and substitutes to test the freedom and restraints of formal structure, to expose the effects of sovereign forces on the body and the violence between state and subject.

Graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA Fine Art in 2013 and the Royal College of Art with an MA Painting in 2020, Lives and works in London.

 

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