Artist working in mixed media, born in America. After studying at the College of St Teresa, Minnesota, 1959–63, then at Pius XII Institute, Florence, 1963–5, Kelly taught fine art at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, after which she moved to England, undertaking postgraduate study at St Martin’s School of Art 1968–70. In 1973, the year she received the Greater London Arts Association Fellowship, Kelly began work on her key work Post-Partum Document, which aimed to “expose the fetishistic function of representation”. Footnotes and Bibliography, Post-Partum Document appeared in 1977, when Kelly gained an Arts Council Award. The Lina Garnade Memorial Foundation Award followed in 1978. Kelly took part in a number of exhibitions with sociological themes.