Mary Kelly was born in Iowa in 1941. She studied at the Pius 12th Institute, Florence, lectured at the American University Beirut, then studied at St Martins School of Art, London. Her film work was mostly collaborative: Nightcleaners (with Berwick Street Film Collective) and Women and Work (with Mar
My work is based on memories of real and imagined landscapes that are precarious yet beautiful. By playing with scale, line, imagery, and diverse materials, I create drawings, paintings and large-scale installations that map out and emphasize the subtle and quirky topologies of urban spaces: they are
The famously disheveled self-portrait -- chest hairs threatening to tickle his chin, two eyebrows merging into one atop dark-rimmed glasses, an emphatically bulbous nose and its own unkempt follicles protruding beneath -- could not be further at odds with the obsessively methodical, every-last-millim