• Title
  Item 2: Michael Kelly oral history interview by Louise Whelan, 10 June 2024
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  10 June 2024
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9683065
• Physical Description
  2 audio files (3 hr., 57 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  This second interview focuses on the start of Michael Kelly's artistic career, taking classes at adult education and then beginning formal studies at art school, first in Sydney and then in Melbourne. Michael talks of finding himself and his vocation, about artistic influences and 'heroes', the practice of drawing, working at night, the evolution of his style and changes in his process over time, his first trips overseas to the USA and UK, and returning to Melbourne to live and teach life drawing.
  
  Michael talks in detail about the importance of keeping his sketchbooks/journal and the ways they opened his subconscious, finding his medium and what it was to pursue life as an artist, and the importance of the creative process in keeping him going. Finally, Michael describes donating his significant sketchbook collection to the State Library of NSW, the impact of that donation on his view of his own work, and his changed understanding of its value and the value of library collections.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Michael Kelly’s home in Woolloomooloo, Sydney on 10 June 2024.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Kelly, Michael, 1956-
  
• Subject
  Kelly, Michael, 1956---Interviews.
  Artists--Australia--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21158743

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