Kelly Ballett
I am interested in sculptural problems. How material becomes to be shaped and where to draw its boundaries. how far can something be one thing before its not. Compressing contradictory material, expressing a formal bind between subject and material my work navigates a Litany of doubles, duplicates, stand-ins, working off dynamics of satire which reveal the relationship and violence between state and subject. the freedom and restraints of formal structure and the effect of sovereign forces on the body.
Kelly Ballett b. 1990, London
Education:
MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London 2019-2021, City & Guilds Carpentry, Furniture making L1, City of Bristol College 2018, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London 2010-2013, FdA Byam Shaw School of Art 2009-2010
Solo Exhibitions:
The Corpomastix, Piccalilli (Upcoming 2025), Fascio, The Royal George (2024) , Release Day, scalalogicalritesofallnations, (2024), Wandervögel, Serf Leeds (2023), Charitable Committee, scatalogicalritesofallnations (2021)
Group shows:
Minor Attractions, with Scatalogicalritesofallnations, The Mandrake Hotel (2024), Enter Deer Park, Wendover House (2024), Systema, with Technoship, Palais Carlis, Marseille (2023), Tongues in Trees, Photobookcafe gallery (2022) curated by The Courtauldian, Interior Castles, h.Arts Lane (2022), FINÉ WINÉS, Set New Cross (2022) , Folk Calisthenics, Holdrons Arcade (2022), In Dreams Begin, Fitzrovia Gallery (2022) curated by Now Curation, Plan View, Studio 2.1, Cell Rollins Street (2021) (group show), RCA 2021 Graduate Showcase, Cromwell Place (2021) Deep Cut, Asylum Chapel Peckham (2021), Journey to Turi, BSR March Mostra (2021) collaboration w. Max Fletcher, Snapshot The Hockney Gallery (2020), Lulu White, Lulu, White, Pigalle, Paris (2016), Marcovaldo, Anarchist Library, Marais, Paris (2015), Ed’s Diner, Trinity Buoy Wharf (2011), Fine Young Things, Whitechapel (2010)
Curation:
Folk Calisthenics, Holdrons Arcade, Peckam (2022)
Texts Written:
Deep Cut, show text, April 2021, BSR March Mostra 2021 For Max Fletcher, Folk Calisthenics, show text, March 2022
Awards:
2021 recipient of the Chelsea Arts Club Trust, Zsuzsi Roboz Award