SIAN KELLY | ARTIST

Sian Kelly is an emerging, multidisciplinary artist working between installation, sculpture, performance and drawing.

Positioning themselves in the morphing, fluid space beyond classification, Kelly’s practice subverts social categories by re-approaching experiences of gender, the body and the self through the exploration of non-fixed states.

Kelly has exhibited throughout the greater Sydney region, including hazelhurst regional art centre, stanley street gallery and unsw galleries. they have been shortlisted for such awards as the kudos emerging artist & designer award and the twt excellence award in sydney, and the incinerator art award in Melbourne.

In 2020, kelly presented their first solo exhibitions at kudos gallery and sydney art collective. their international cereer launched in 2023 with metamorphosis I at house of annetta in London, United Kingdom, and participation in the pilotenkueche international residency programme in leipzig, germany, where they exhibited in the programme’s open studio and final exhibition, and as part of lichtspiele des westens.

Historically based in gadigal/sydney, as of july 2025 kelly has relocated to london.

Kelly holds a bachelor of fine arts (hons) from unsw art and design.