Martha Kelsey graduated with a Creative Arts degree from Bath Spa University in 2016. She works across two-dimensional media, mostly in paint and print, and has collaborated with a number of regional organisations. These have included Voices Gloucester, Meadow Arts and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Each commissioned her to respond to historical sites for new audiences. She continues to develop her work, which invariably dwells on the transience of the human experience, as revealed through the study of relics, ruins and the historical record. 

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Selected Exhibitions, Commissions and Events

Hillfield Monuments, public installation (installed August 2023), Hillfield Gardens. A commission with Voices Gloucester.

Youth Fellow at the Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, August 2022 - 2023.

OKTA Artist in Residence, The Hive, Birmingham (part of the Ruskin Mill Land Trust), July 2022.

Mind - be present, here/be here now, Kingshill House, Dursley. February - April 2022. Curated by Athene Greig and Georgie Winter White.

Little Cures, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. April 2021 - April 2022.

RURALities, Meadow Arts exhibition, Hereford Museum and Art Gallery and online, May - June 2021.

Artist-in-Their-Residence, The Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham. October 2020 — April 2021.

Art in THEIR Quarter, Cheltenham Town Centre, September 2020. Curated by Ella Daniel-Lowe.

Stroud Summer Show, SVA. 2019. Curated by James Holliday.

Stroud Summer Show, SVA. 2018. Curated by James Holliday.

Latte Leninism, The Vestibules. 2017. Curated by Artspace Lifespace.

Telephone Box Project, Cheltenham Promenade. 2017. Curated by Oliver Tipper.

Walcot Winterfest, Walcot Chapel. 2016. Curated by Jenny Pollitt.

Class of 2016, Lane House Arts. 2016. Curated by Jenny Pollitt.

SALT, OXO Bargehouse. 2016. Curated by Fiona Cassidy.

BA Degree Show, Bath School of Art and Design. 2016.