Journey Kelly
Atmospheric domesticity clings to my practice and invites itself in, its imagery drawing me back through time and time again. The home – a site to constantly retrieve from. Familial history – can you ever exhaust it? Photographic family archives are fundamental to my practice as I engage with themes of ubiquity, memory, maternal nurture, accessibility, and familiarity. I explore various economic and accessible printing processes and image transfer methods; I call these domestic printmaking techniques. Bleach and rust are prevalent in my practice as I consider their thematic connections to absence and the deterioration of material being an archival practice in of itself, baring the marks of time. Degradation, agedness, wornness, blurredness. Immersed in a fog, in a crumbling – reconstructing time and place I no longer have access to. What is it about an image you cannot quite decipher? One that sits just out of reach?
Journey Kelly, Hidupku Dalam Tanganmu Tuhan, Rust image transfers on mat board, 2025, Image courtesy of the artist.
Journey Kelly, Hidupku Dalam Tanganmu Tuhan, Screen print on used paper backdrop, 2025, Image courtesy of the artist.
Journey Kelly, Untitled, Laptop screen exposures onto photographic paper and mounted on mat board, pencil drawing on swatch of mesh curtain, inkjet prints, residuums of rust image transfers, 2025, Image courtesy of the artist.
Journey Kelly, Still, Eucalyptus image transfers on mat board, 2025, Image courtesy of the artist.
Journey Kelly, Untitled, Rust image transfers on mat board, painted skirting boards, canvas fabric, 2025, Image courtesy of the artist.
Journey Kelly, Untitled, Phone screen exposures onto photographic paper, bleach image transfer on mat board, canvas fabric, 2024/2025, Image courtesy of the artist.
Journey Kelly, Installation view, 2025. Image courtesy of the University of Melbourne. Photography by Christo Crocker.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne