Kate Kelly

Kate Kelly is a Norfolk-based painter who studied Fine Art Painting at Camberwell (MA) and the University of Brighton (BA). Her work explores intersectional feminism and biographical experiences, incorporating personal herstories from both research and practice. The women in her paintings are active, vocal, and physically present, with space for their narratives. Kelly examines female experience through visual means, integrating identity through patterns and spatial composition. She uses photography and drawing to capture staged and candid moments. Her paintings explore subjective embodiment, portraying individuals as people with agency and presence, rather than as objects of passive observation.

UAL, Camberwell, MA, Fine Art Painting with Distinction.

University of Buckingham, Postgraduate Certificate in Education with Distinction.

University of Brighton, Fine Art Painting; First Class Honours.

2026: HOME: Cupola Gallery 178 Middlewood Rod, Hillsborough, Sheffield S6 1TD UK

2025: At The Handbag Factory, 23-26 May 2025

2025: Mortal &; Strong, Waterloo, London, 10th - 17th may 2025​

2025: UNSEEN, Anteros Arts Foundation, 11-15 Fye Bridge St, Norwich NR3 1LJ

2025: Quite Moments, Nip & Growler, 68 High St, King's Lynn PE30 1AY

2024: From The Ground Up, Critical Edge Collective, Lewisham Arthouse, London

2024: and you would have to believe it, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London

2024: Unconsumed II, The Shoe Factory, St Mary’s Works, St Mary’s Plain, Norwich NR3 3AF

2024: Dulwich Festival

2024: SURGE III, 2024, Lethaby Gallery, Central St Martins, UAL

2023: Emerge, The undercroft, 112-134, Market P1, Norwich, NR2 1ND

2023: To The Lighthouse, Studio 18, Mill Bank, London, Sw1P 4QP

2023: MA Summer Show, 45-65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UF

2023: Making Conversations, APT Gallery, 6 Creekside Deptford, London, SE8 4SA

2023: Women in Art Fair, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1

2023: Dirty Laundry II ,1 Acorn Parade London SE15 2TZ Amp Gallery

2023: Sense Of Place

2023: Dirty Laundry: 45-65 Peckham Rd, London SE5 8UF

2023: SHE, The Bridewell Studio & Gallery ,101 Prescot St, Liverpool L7 8UL

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