Carmen Kelly

 Melbourne born artist Carmen Kelly currently resides in Singapore. Her art practice and passion lie in the creation of hand-woven suspended wire sculptures.

Carmen spent most of her working years as a Graphic Designer, while always continuing to create art. Although painting, drawing and contemporary mixed media have informed earlier work, this current art practice of hand weaving and manipulating copper wire into organic sculptural forms is truly her passion. A labour of love, this repetitive but cathartic form of weaving is self-taught. Carmen continues to explore the technique, pushing the possibilities of the medium to create aesthetically interesting pieces that bring joy to the viewer.

“I am obsessed with positive and negative, with light and shade, and with a play between the planned and the random. Juxtapositions, opposites – it’s all of interest. My work reflects those very elements. The idea that wire, so ordinary and hard, can be manipulated into something quite beautiful, light and complex. That a planned piece will always develop a little randomly because it’s handmade and imperfect. And light and shade, an ever-present element when changeable light passes through sculptures, creates shadows. Shadows that become part of those artworks.”