Kelly Ballett

London

Kelly Ballett (b. London 1990)

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‘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.

Fall of the Rebel Angel (Fergie hits the sky)

Grant Snail

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The Corpomastix

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Semi-detached (Prototype)

Fall of the Rebel Angel (Fergie hits the sky)

Grant Snail

Hereditary Wishes

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The Corpomastix 2025 (install)

The Corpomastix

Metamorph

Substitutes For Bread

Formation 2a, 2b

Formation 1a, 1b

Positions, A, B

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 (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)