This river ‘Mersey’ has become entwined with my life. It has sustained life and spirit in this region for millennia, shaping the land and people. This is a river few of us know: a wild river running through gorges and forests.

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Biography
A lens-based artist living and working in Northwest Tasmania. Kelly makes images of the environment and sense of place she experiences while immersed in the topography. Her recent work has been strongly focused on inhabited landscapes; the inevitable impacts human activity makes on the environment, as individuals and societies.

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