Awakening Painting

Kelly Maree is an Australian contemporary visual artist, working primarily within the mediums of acrylic paint and mixed media. Kelly’s current artworks centre on depicting human emotion and experience through portraiture. Through her artwork Kelly aims to capture the expressions of vulnerability and strength, and one’s interaction with their social world. Kelly is interested in the social construction of identities, and therefore also believes a portrait to be a visual expression of a specific cultural context; time and place. A common theme within Kelly’s work is her vibrant and robust application of colour. Bold palette knife and brush strokes work to infuse the pieces with rich hues of pinks, reds and blues. Kelly’s pieces are characterised by this synergy of colour which represents the relationship between the individual, their emotive self and identity, and their social environment. Kelly invites others to construct their own meanings and interpretations of her pieces, as she strongly believes in the importance and interrelationship between the visual arts and personal connection.