DEBORAH KELLY | ARTIST

No Human Being Is Illegal (in all our glory) is a long-term, workshop-based, evolving, collaborative, life-sized collage portrait project involving participants as subjects and as teaching and learning collagists. 

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In 2018 the suite was acquired by the Wellcome Trust, London, for their permanent exhibition Being Human. In November–December 2019 I was Wellcome Trust’s first international artist in residence. I lead 70-plus people over 5 weeks of workshops to create portraiture of artist and drag performer Danny Smith, in collaboration with Danny himself.

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Collaborators, Australia:

Bianca Acimovic (curator, MAMA) Zehra Ahmed (practice subject); Tony Albert (teacher, interlocutor); Michelle Robin Anderson; Kate Andrews; Gemma Avery; Roslyn Baker; Lucy Barker; Jo Bartels; Kevin Bathman; Prudence Black; Jenny Bohner; Briony Boulton; Victoria Bradbury; Tricia Bradford; Ruth Braunstein; Michael Brennan (curator, Noosa); Jo Briscomb; Frank Burgers; Gary Carsley (reader); Trish Cerminara; Shuxia Chen; Jodi Clark; Domi Cohen; Faith Colwell-Beaver; Dean Cotter; Jane Crowley; Jo Davenport (kintsugi idea); Bec Dean; Gabi Dick; Peter Drummond; Jenny Du; Helen Duckworth (team leader); Michele Elliott; Amy Emerson; Sally Evans; Alex Falkiner; Vicky Finch; Susan Forrester; Janette Gay; John Geraghty; Caitlin Gibson; Su Goldfish; Lorna Goldring; Karen Golland; Daniel Green; Lydia Grossmann; Jane Guthleben; Matthew Hamra; Toni Harris; Jill Harris; Julie Hauritz; Anne Hayward; Lynette Hearne; Rebecca Heffernan; Amanda Holt (team leader); Margo Hore; Camille Howard; Annelise Howes; Yang-En Hume (team leader); Jan Idle; Chris Isgro; Linda Jaivin (reader); Cat Jones; Nicolette Katsouras; Zina Kaye; Mary Kellam; Sergej Kolke; Freddie Landgraf; Alison Lee; Carli Leimbach; Tania Leimbach; Lex Lindsay (team leader); Susie Losch; Sky; Mahalia McConkey; Fiona McGregor (reader); Michael McIntyre; Penny McIntyre; Tracie MacVean; Farhan Mahmud (team leader); Tea Mäkipää; Lin Martin; Paul Matthews; Letizia Mondello (reader); Catriona Moore; Frank Motz (reader); Tamara Murray; Kathie Najar; Elena Ortega; Michelle Oxlee; Beatrice Prost; Rujunko Pugh (team leader); Bernadette Roberts; Meara Robinson; Megan Rushton; Penny Ryan; Gary Samuels; Ewen Schell; Kim Schoenberger; Bron Shipway; Justin Shoulder; N.E. Skinner (documentation); Dianne Smith; Kim Spinks; Lin Starke; Glenda Stasse; Olwen Steel; Ryan Sutherland; David Taylor; Katrin Terton; Abi Thompson; Bethany Thornber; Karin Tremonti (Goldsmith) Jasmine Tulk; Marian Van Dorssen; Ilaria Vanni; Raelene Weissel; Tony Wellington (Mayor, Noosa) Chantelle Woods (producer/curator, Biennale of Sydney).