Artworks by Kelli Sharp
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Artworks by Kelli Sharp *
Lives & Works in Perth Western Australia
Founding Member & Director of StudioZer0 Arts Inc.
Kelli@studiozeroart.org
1999 - 2001 Bachelor of Fine Arts
School of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Western Australia
1994 - 1998 Diploma of Fine Arts & Design Claremont School of Art
An Installation Artist working mostly with ephemeral works in the realm of cross cultural pollinations, geopolitics & binaries, collapsing and reforming those binaries often through electronic media.
‘ I am always interested in the space that lives between the binaries – the middle ground if you like! It seems to be the only place of tension that is able to hold peace.
Of course eventually all binaries collapse into new binaries it is inevitable! Yet I’m hopeful that at some point peace can be more than just a fleeting moment.’ says Kelli
~ ‘As humanity moves forward in a constant states of duality where one binary collapses and another is formed instantaneously we find ourselves in familiar repetitive territory! Fast forward Rinse and Repeat seems no longer an option if humanity is to not only to survive but to move BEYOND SURVIVAL. The current tumulturous political temperature world wide is palpable, perhaps even visceral for us all.
Contemplation on the mountain top becomes redundant regardless of one’s individual or collective consciousness. Instead we find ourselves at planetary level in a place of needing to embrace the dark and find the light within that dark!
I AM the grain of sand and I AM the desert! Reflection meets authentic action where we just have to get out of our own way! From the Tree of Knowledge we evolve collectively into the Tree of Life!’
~ Kelli Sharp 2024
#HorrorToHope 202 - Global Movement For Peace 2024 & 2025 by Kelli Sharp
THE CURRENT GLOBAL POLITICAL LANDSCAPE AND STATE OF HUMANITY IS TUMULTUOUS. A WAR OF CONTRAST BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC FREEDOM &AUTOCRATIC ENTRAPMENT
CREATIVES, ARTISTS & POLITICAL ACTIVISTS ACROSS THE GLOBE Were invited TO JOIN US IN CREATING ARTWORKS IN PUBLIC SPACES GUERILLA STYLE FOR CHANGE & HOPE
Street Art, Strike Art, Installation Art, Graffiti Art, Performance Art, Activism Happenings...
VIA CREATIVITY & ART LET'S SHOW OUR GLOBAL LEADERS THAT WE THE PEOPLE WANT
PEACE NOT WAR
FREEDOM NOT ENTRAPMENT
COMPASSION NOT VIOLENC
TO MESSENGER @ INSTAGRAM #FromHorror ToHope
Medium: One off Video Original 6:32mins on a loop and housed in a digital photo light box, authenticated by the artist as the only signed original.
Public viewing is on YouTube
Artist Statement: When you feel like all you can do is hope and prayer 🙏
Linked Objects II, 2022 - National Museum Tilbilsi Georgia
Objects Of My Gaze II by Kelli Sharp
Object Of My Gaze II 2022 - Linked Objects II - In solidarity with the Ukraine 2022 National Museum Tilbilsi Georgia.
Linked Objects II - 2022( In Solidarity with Ukraine) Current Exhibitions Space UZ ( Suwon. Korea ), Artisterium ( Tbilisi Georgia) Collective work with POLAND National Museum, Jura Platz ( Biel / Bienne. SWISS)
Medium: One off Video Original 6:32mins on a loop and housed in a digital photo light box, authenticated by the artist as the only signed original.
Public viewing is on YouTube
Artist Statement: When you feel like all you can do is hope and prayer 🙏
Linked Objects 2020
Objects Of My Gaze (Pandemic) by Kelli Sharp
‘We say that digital communication made the world smaller meaning that we are interconnected through our avatars in the virtual world. What the outbreak of the COVID-19 clearly showed is that we are not only connected through our corpreal bodies we are just as connected in our digital ones too.’says Park Byoung-Uk
Medium: One off Video Original 2:15mins on a loop and housed in a digital photo light box, authenticated by the artist as the only signed original.
Public viewing is on YouTube
Linked Objects Exhibitions To Date
Gallery " Palace de Soul" ( Seoul, Korea ) Artisterium ( Tbilisi. Georgia)
Space "Tigrapher " ( Jeju, Korea ) Quratair Initiative ( Haag, The Netherlands)
Cheongju Museum of Art ( Cheongju. Korea ) Sarajevska Zima ( Sarajevo. BOSNIA)
Avalanche Art Space ( Massachusetts. USA) Jura platz ( Biel/Bienne. SWISS.
ARTIST STATEMENT: I am That, That I am
TASTE OF TEA, NINE DRAGON HEAD Parallel Event of the 15th Istanbul Biennale
High Tea at the Birds Eye View, 2017 By KelliSharp
Media: video installation, 200 X 200 cm Courtesy the artist
Medium: One off Video Original 8:53mins on a loop and housed in a digital photo light box, authenticated by the artist as the only signed original
Public viewing is on YouTube
ARTIST STATEMENT Human connections are layered and as complex as our interaction with nature! Hopefully from this we learn and grow with each experience. The art of tea making, whether in solitude or partaking with another, truly represents the art life scenario within and of itself. A Birds Eye View of all of these shared moments whether strangers, friend or foe it has the power to connect even the most unexpected. With each sip, slurp, slop and sometimes sleuth around discussion, conversation, negotiation and babble we find shared secrets of joy and darkness. Either way it is the humble pot of tea that is our silent partner in the room that allows us to connect. Within us, hopefully in this conscious biological organ, mother nature’s most amazing creation we can find a place of peace within and with all “other”.
The Problem is Rom, Not Rum but Rom by Kelli Sharp
Hurum - Hyundai Gallery, South Korea 2004 - Flow - Cullity Gallery UWA, Perth Western Australian 2007
Medium: One off Video Original 9:56mins on a loop and part of an ephemeral installation.
Public viewing is on YouTube
ARTIST STATEMENT: This one speaks for itself! Does it not?
Medium: One off Video Original 8:53mins on a loop and part of an ephemeral installation.
Public viewing is on YouTube
ARTIST STATEMENT : Individual change from within comes first before a collective change is possible!