KELLY REYNOLDS

Kelly Reynolds graduated from Adelaide Central School of Art with first class Honours(2017). Her field of practice encompasses video, performance, ceramics and installation. Reynolds navigates dominant and normative systems under her own terms. She is interested in objects on the edges of ownership and seeks out peripheral, queer and verge spaces. 

Reynolds was selected for the National Graduate Show HATCHED, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2018). She received a Graduate Support Grant to develop Sole Trader for Psychache, Holy Rollers Studios (2018) and was a finalist for the SALA, City Rural Emerging Artist Award. 

Reynolds was commissioned with Sasha Grbich to create a collaborative community project and installation Urban Sun Project for ACE Open for Plenty (2018). During 2019 Reynolds practice was fueled by international residencies at Hangar (Lisbon) and PHASMID Studios (Berlin), where she developed Pigeon, FELTspace for FELTdark.

Returning to Adelaide, Reynolds collaborated with Grbich on commissioned projects; Time Traveller for Hole, Sauerbier House (2020). Nettling for On Being an Artist, Praxis ARTSPACE (2020), Last Nights in Cities, VERGEspace (2020), Satellite City for ADELAIDEX, POP Gallery (2021).

Recent exhibitions include The Drawing Exchange (2022), Riverside (2022), Satellite City (2021) Heatwave, West Gallery (2021), Fleuressence, Coral Street Art Space, (2021) and upcoming projects Open Book, Adelaide Central Gallery, (2023) and Unley Projects, Open Space Contemporary Arts (2023).

OSCA

Our mission is to provide artists and non-artists with opportunities to create contemporary works that explore local ideas and new way of coming together in the public domain.

OSCA acknowledges we work on Kaurna Land – always was, always will be.

OSCA is funded by Arts South Australia. We also receive project support from the Australia Council, the City of Port Adelaide Enfield, Country Arts SA and the City of Onkaparinga.