Nicole Kelly

Arty Act: Collection of Colour

Nature based activity

This is a simple video guide to extend your way of seeing colour in the environment around you.

You will need:

• Collected material from the natural environment (instructions in video) 

Get to Know Nicole Kelly

Winner of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship (2009) and the Hurford Hardwood Portrait Prize (2018), Kelly is recognised for her landscape, portraiture and still life painting. She has undertaken residencies in France (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2010) and Spain (2016) and has completed major public commissions for the Sutherland and St George Hospitals in Sydney. Her work has been selected for inclusion in the Lester Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of WA (2019, 2018, 2017, 2015), Portia Geach Memorial Award (2020, 2019, 2015, 2014), Salon des Refuses (2020, 2019, 2017) and Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of NSW (2015). Kelly’s work is held in the collections of the Moran Art Foundation, Lismore Regional Gallery and Foxtel among others. She is currently completing her Masters of Fine Art at the University of New South Wales where she is undertaking research in contemporary landscape painting.