Mary Kelly

Mary Kelly creates Installation work which includes mixed modes of documentation. One of her most important works is Interim which Kelly creates using memories. Post Partum Document created in the 1970s has been widely exhibited and caused a significant amonut of scandal when first exhibited. She uses a conceptual approach to doucmentation and includes vests, dirty nappies, traces of markings and writing, hand imprints, and insect specimens. This is Kelly's means of documentation and recording via her child although she also includes further notes such as quantities of milk the child requires on a daily basis before it is weaned onto solids. She also includes academic texts and data to underpin and make sense of the purely sensory experience of the child's development.