Brendan Kelly

Education
1998 Camberwell School of Art ,Art Foundation Course
1989 -1993 B.A. (Hons) Drawing & Painting - The Slade School of Fine Art
1993 Scholarship - Athens School of Fine Art, Greece

Selected Exhibitions
1991 - Hunting Observer Competition, Mall Galleries - Student Prize
BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery
1992 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery - Commended Prize
Critic’s Choice - Brian Sewell, Cooling Gallery, London
1993 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery - Commended Prize
1995 - Royal Scottish Academy - MacFarlane Painting Prize Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
1995/96 - Treasures of the National Portrait Gallery, touring exhibition to Japan
1997/8 - Solo Exhibition:Light & Colour, The Edinburgh Gallery Painting Abroad (USA/France)
1999 - Scottish Paintings at the Air Gallery, London
2001 - BP Portrait Awards ,N.P.G. 2nd Prize Two man exhibition, The Edinburgh Gallery
2003 - Royal Soc. Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries London BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2004 - The De Laszlo Prize for the best portrait by a young artist At the Royal Society of Portrait Artists. London ‘ Being Present ‘(8 figurative painters) The Jerwood Space, London
2005 - Royal Soc. Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries London BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London Artist in Residence, the Art Academy, London
Elected member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters
2006 - Royal Society. Portrait Painters. HSBC Prize for the best painting by a young artist.
Head of Drawing at The Art Academy London
2007 - Changing Faces Prize for the painting that most powerfully connects with the viewer (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)

Portrait commissions include: Lord Ross, The Duke of Atholl, Kate Adie, Sir Vivian Richards, Inzamam Ul-Haq, General Richards