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