I work from home in McLaren Vale on the Fleurieu Peninsula. My ideas reflect the diversity of the region in which I live- rural and urban landscape, native flora and agricultural machinery.

I find linocut printmaking a powerful medium- exciting and unpredictable. My work is hand drawn straight onto the lino which gives it freshness, originality and spontaneity.

Design is paramount to my style. I enhance the main image with bold elements in both the foreground and background. When hand-painting I often include large areas of black and white which strengthen the composition.

When cutting I utilise varying techniques to display texture and create energy. I use water based Block Print Lamp Black Ink. Each piece is individually hand rolled and editions are normally 20 pieces depending on size.

I hand paint usually in sets of 2 – 4. I use acrylic paint to show bold, striking colour. Finally I spray varnish to enhance the colours and protect the Canson-Ja paper.

In 2009 I began portraiture. My latest is a still life which includes my mother, my mother in law and their “treasures”; and my parents courting in Wellington Square in the early 1950s.

FINALIST

• FLEURIEU FOOD & WINE PRIZE 2016
• ADELAIDE PARKLANDS ART PRIZE Adelaide Festival Centre 2016 2014
• HEYSEN ART PRIZE Hahndorf Arts Academy 2012 2007
• FLEURIEU ART PRIZE Boards Choice Exhibition 2011
• PROSPECT PORTRAIT PRIZE 2009
• FLEURIEU BIENNALE VISTAS PRIZE 2008 2006 2004
• OUTBACK ART PRIZE Broken Hill Regional Gallery 2015 2008 2007
• WHYALLA ART PRIZE 2007
• FLEURIEU BIENNALE WINE INDUSTRY PRIZE 2004

EXHIBITIONS

• SUMMER SENSATIONS Wilsons Gallery Robe 2015/16
• PENNY’S PICKS SALA Penny’s Hill Winery McLaren Vale 2016 2015
• FLEURIEU ART PRIZE Fleurieu Landscapes Adelaide Airport & Penny’s Hill Winery McLaren Vale 2013
• FLEURIEU FEMALES SALA Stump Hill Gallery Visitor Centre McLaren Vale 2013
• BOLD with Sue Garrard Pikes Winery Clare Valley 2013
• REFLECTIONS OF PLACE AND NATURE  SALA Cocks Auld Real Estate Unley 2012
• FLEURIEU ART PRIZE WINNERS AND HARDY’S PRIVATE COLLECTION  SALA Hardy’s Winery McLaren Vale 2011
• GAIL KELLETT AND JEN WRIGHT Dogridge Winery and Gallery McLaren Flat 2011
• LORETO ART SHOW  2012 2011 2013
• DOUBLE VISION Onkaparinga/Mt Gambier Artists Exchange 2008/09
• THE BOLD LINE Redpoles Gallery SALA 2009
• ARTISTS OF THE FLEURIEU Fleurieu Biennale 2008
• THE TREE Fleurieu Biennale 2008
• DRIDAN ARTS farewell 2008
• SCOTCH ART 2009 2008 2007 2006
• IDOLS ICONS & IDEOLOGY 2005 FEAST
• GEOMETRY Dridan Fine Arts 2005
• STILL LIFE Dridan Fine Arts 2005
• ON THE FARM Dridan Fine Arts 2004
• FRIENDS with Lesley Redgate 1998

SOLO

• BOLD by Gail Kellett Promenade Gallery B Flinders Medical Centre 2012
• GAIL KELLETT LOVES LINO SALA Blessed Cheese McLaren Vale 2012
• Greenhill Galleries Adelaide 2011
• 3 Monkeys Willunga 2011
• Blessed Cheese McLaren Vale 2011 2012 2013
• BOLD FLEURIEU BIENNALE Gemtree/Dowie Doole Winery 2009
• Shingleback Winery McLaren Vale 2010/11

COMMISSIONS

• FLEURIEU BIENNALE BOARD Harvest 06
• DENNIS WINERY Nindethana
• MARIENBERG WINERY Bell’s Block
• private residence 2013

BOOKS

• Artists Of The Fleurieu

PROGRAMMES

• OUT OF THE ORDINARY Channel 9 2009

ACQUISITIONS

• ANGOVE WINERY
• ALEXANDRINA COUNCIL
• BRL HARDY
• CITY OF BURNSIDE
• CITY OF ONKAPARINGA
• D’ARENBERG WINERY
• DOWIE DOOLE WINERY
• FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE
• QANTAS
• WIRRA WIRRA WINERY