Deborah Kelly Nip & Tuck: Tooth & Claw 2009  Mixed media Deborah Kelly’s Nip & Tuck: Tooth & Claw investigates female agency, complicity and representation by transforming the KLIPPAN into a feminine explosion of hair, skin, painted nails and silk knickers. The work is an extension of her ongoing paper montage series begun in 2007. Deborah is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown in streets, skies and galleries around Australia, in the Singapore and Venice Biennales, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the art gang boat-people.org, who have been making public work around race, nation, borders and history since 2001. Most recently, she instigated a distributed participatory memorial for the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June 2009.

Deborah Kelly Nip & Tuck: Tooth & Claw 2009 
Mixed media

Deborah Kelly’s Nip & Tuck: Tooth & Claw investigates female agency, complicity and representation by transforming the KLIPPAN into a feminine explosion of hair, skin, painted nails and silk knickers. The work is an extension of her ongoing paper montage series begun in 2007.

Deborah is a Sydney-based artist whose works have been shown in streets, skies and galleries around Australia, in the Singapore and Venice Biennales, and elsewhere. She is a founding member of the art gang boat-people.org, who have been making public work around race, nation, borders and history since 2001. Most recently, she instigated a distributed participatory memorial for the Tiananmen Square massacre on 4 June 2009.

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