Kelly SLATER

Kelly moved to Northwest Tasmania in 2009, she has been working as professional photographer one way and another since that time. When her children headed off on their education and life adventures, Kelly embraced the opportunity to take her photographic practice in new directions. Exploring concepts and ideas as a lens-based artist, making images of the environment and the sense of place she experiences while immersed in the topography of Tasmania.

Photography is a passion and compulsion that has driven her since adolescence, growing up in New Zealand. Using film cameras and analogue printing techniques as a teenager, gave her a strong foundation in the capture of light. Her education has been self-directed, undertaking technical and creative training as time and family life as allowed. Moving to digital as soon as DSLR’s and digital editing became affordable, her visual communication skills have been informed by her experiences as a media photographer.

Kelly is now actively developing new skills, embracing the capacity of modern cameras to capture moving images and projection technologies to share them. Her recent work has been strongly focused on Place and inhabited landscapes. Her work considers the inevitable impacts humans have on the environment, both as individuals and societies while constructing lives on earth.