Kelly Hussey-Smith

Kelly Hussey-Smith is a Documentary Practitioner mainly working in photography and more recently in video and multimedia. She lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. Kelly is currently completing postgraduate study at the Queensland College of Art where she also teaches photography, and is working on a long-term project investigating the unseen products of industry.

In 2010 Kelly was the overall winner of the Churchie National Emerging Art Award and was selected for the Institute of Modern Art’s 2010 Fresh Cut show. She regularly exhibits her work in Australia and has also exhibited in China, Bangladesh, and the UK. Kelly has worked voluntarily as an editor for the Australian PhotoJournalist, Centre for Documentary Practice, and as a documentist for Operation Smile who she has travelled with to document medical missions in Australia and abroad.

 

Artist CV

2011 - Caged and Consumed, Obscura Gallery, Melbourne, AUS

2011 - Caged, Chobi Mela VI International Photography Festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh

2010 - Operation Smile installation at the Chifley Building, Sydney, AUS

2010 - Caged (Images and Videoworks), Queensland Centre for Photography, Brisbane, AUS

2010 - Fresh Cut 2010, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AUS

2009 - Operation Smile installation at the Riverside Centre, Brisbane, AUS

2012 - Hull, Divergence: Photographs from Elsewhere, Midland Atelier, Perth, AUS (March)

2011 - Hull, ‘Shared Visions’, Lodz, Lublin and Wroclaw, Poland

2011 - Rokiah, RAW DATA, The White Box Gallery, QCA Gold Coast, AUS 

2011 - Toucan and Little Egret, The New Arcadia, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, AUS

2011 - Chimpanzee, Animals People, A Shared Environment, POP Gallery, Brisbane, AUS

2011 - Old English Game, Josephine Ulrich and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery, AUS

2011 - Caged, Los Angeles Photo Art Fair 2012, Los Angeles, USA 

2010 - Caged, ACMP Projections, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, AUS

2010 - Pingyao International Photography Festival, China
2010 - Old English Game, The Moran Contemporary Photography Prize, Sydney, AUS
2010 - Foto8 Summer Show, Host Gallery, London, UK.
2010 - Caged Animated Works, The Churchie National Emerging Art Award, Griffith Gallery, Brisbane, AUS
2009 - Caged, Wherever you go, there you are, Fine Art and Photography Honours Exhibition, Brisbane, AUS
2009 - Operation Smile presented at the CDP Online Symposium for Documentary Photography

2006 - Destiny, Saving Daylight, Queensland College of Art, Graduate Exhibition, Brisbane, AUS

2011 - Finalist, Josephine Ulrich and Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast Art Gallery, AUS

2011 - Selected for Los Angeles Photo Art Fair 2012, Los Angeles, USA

2010 - Featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, Metro, Ten Rising Visionaries Make Their Mark, October 8 AUS

2010 - Semi-Finalist in the Moran Photographic Prize, Sydney, AUS
2010 - Overall Winner (Caged Video Works) of the Churchie Emerging Art Award, Brisbane, AUS
2010 - Finalist in Foto8 Summer Show, London, UK

2010 - Finalist, ACMP Projections, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, AUS
2010 - Caged, featured in The Big Issue Magazine, Roving Eye, AUS
2010 - Caged, Featured on Vibewire web portal and print Anthology AUS
2009 - Operation Smile Published on ABC news online, AUS
2009 - Awarded Tom Burns Scholarship by the Australia China Business Council AUS
2008 - Awarded Most Outstanding Metropolitan Student Journalist, Queensland Media Awards 2008 AUS
2008 - Operation Smile featured in Red Magazine, AUS
2008 - Awarded a Commonwealth Government Equity Scholarship for BPhoto Hons, AUS
2008 - Awarded the Queensland Arts Council Photographer for a Year Scholarship, AUS
2006 - Awarded the APJ award for Outstanding Social Documentary Photography, AUS 

2006 - Awarded Academic Excellence Award from Griffith Universtiy AUS

2005 - Awarded Academic Excellence Award from Griffith Universtiy AUS

Caged (Video works) acquired by Griffith University Artworks

Little Egret acquired by The Daryl Hewson Collection

2011 - PhD Candidate, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University

2009 - Bachelor of Photography with Honours from Queensland College of Art, Griffith University