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 Jane
Kelly was a professional journalist with the Daily Mail
for fifteen years and became the main feature writer, well
known for her interviews with international celebrities. She
was dismissed from her job after her painting of Myra Hindley
If We Could Undo Psychosis 2 (see above) was exhibited
in The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker
Gallery, Liverpool in September 2004.
She
has been painting seriously for ten years. She has taken part
in numerous shows with the Stuckists and is founder of the
Acton Stuckists group. She has been exhibited in the Royal
Academy Summer Show, the Sackville Gallery, London and the
Excel Centre, Manchester, the MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling
and the Wolverhampton City Art Gallery. She has studied History
and Fine Art at Stirling University, and taken an Advanced
Painting Diploma at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
She
has a preoccupation with The Holocaust, describing herself
as a "post-holocaust painter". She has, for example,
painted barbed wire from a concentration camp. After visiting
Zandefort, a beach near Amsterdam, which Anne Frank used to
frequent with her family on many occasions, Kelly painted
a picture showing Anne Frank on the beach. The painting was
auctioned at Sotheby's on April 28, 2006, in aid of trauma
victims.
Artist's
statement on If We Could Undo Psychosis 2
"I've always been fascinated by Myra Hindley's disastrous
life and because hers was the first horrible crime I knew
about as a child. I wanted to see what she might have looked
like in the kind of family situation she was always denied."
The
Real Turner Prize 2004
Jane
Kelly was the winner of the Stuckists Real
Turner Prize 2004 for her painting If We Could Undo
Psychosis 2, shown at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool,
as part of The Stuckists Punk Victorian show.
"DAILY MAIL SACKS WRITER WHO PAINTED HINDLEY
PICTURE" IN THE STUCKISTS PUNK VICTORIAN SHOW
- Front page of The Guardian here
(30.9.04)
"JOURNALIST IS SACKED AFTER EXHIBITING
WORK AT WALKER"
- the Liverpool Daily Post here.
Comment by Anthony Daniels
on The Social Affairs Unit site here.
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From the Independent
(2.2.05)
Jane Kelly,
the journalist and artist who was sacked as a feature
writer by the Daily Mail, is paying tribute to her
old boss. Kelly, who was dismissed last year shortly
after unveiling a controversial portrait of the Moors
Murderer Myra Hindley (now sold), has turned her talents
to other subjects. "It's a canvas called Hated Fathers,
and it is going to picture the faces of awful patriarchs,"
she tells me. "I'm including Earl Haig, who I think
was responsible for sending so many young men to their
death in the First World War; Chaim Rumkowsky, who
ran a ghetto in Poland during the Second World War
where all the inhabitants died; Peter the Great, who
murdered his son; and Paul Dacre, the editor of the
Daily Mail." No hard feelings, then.
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Regarding
her dismissal, Kelly has told us:
"I was never given a full reason for my dismissal
but also got into trouble by trying to introduce the
term "German expressionism" into some copy about the
performing dwarves used in the MGM film, The Wizard
of Oz, some of whom came from Weimar Germany. The acting
feature editor at the time had never heard of such a
thing and said "what the fuck is German Expressionism?
I have never heard of it and neither have our fucking
readers."
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Interview
with Jane Kelly on
heyokamagazine.com (2005) |
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