About Ping
Ping Kelly is a graduate of Yunnan
Arts
University, in Kunming, where she also qualified as a teacher. Her
personal preference is for abstract painting in oils but since taking
up residence in The UK, she has further developed her skills as a
portrait painter.
Ping collaborated with other local
artists to
create a banner depicting St Winefride, which now hangs in St
Winefride's School in Wibsey. A more recent portrait responding to the
only known image of a shrewd 18th century entrepreneur, Betty Beecroft,
is currently on display at the Leeds
to innovation exhibition at Leeds Industrial
Museum.
Ping also creates water colours in
the traditional
style of her native China. However, she has recently deviated from the
Chinese figurative style to experiment with abstract forms using
traditional brush painting techniques.
From temporary studio space overlooking the Westfield Development site in Bradford’s Broadway, Ping painted the dramatic city centre landscape as it developed. At different times of the day and throughout the four seasons, she created a contemporaneous series of dramatic pictures marking the creation of a vibrant and new part of Bradford's history.
Ping has exhibited her work at several venues throughout Yorkshire as well as internationally and is included in Not Just Hockney, an illustrated guide to professional visual artists, in the Bradford district. As well as creating her own artwork, Ping also conducts workshops in Chinese brush painting, calligraphy, paper cutting and lantern making for groups of all ages. Besides children’s workshops in primary school, and at the Young Masters Visual Art School in Bradford, she has held adult workshops at the Fabric Gallery in Bradford and The Confucius Institute in Leeds. Ping has held workshops for both adult and child visitors to Bradford Festival and Huddersfield Festival. .
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| 1989 | Dali Museum, Xiaguan. Group Exhibition of undergraduate work. |
| 1996 | Yunnan Provincial Gallery, Kunming. Five-Women Exhibition, Group show |
| 2005 | Art in the Garden, Sheffield. Celebrity Portrait Competition |
| 2006 | Art in the Garden, Sheffield. Celebrity Portrait Competition |
| 2008 -2009 | St. James Hospital, Leeds. Small and Beautiful. Group show |
| 2010 | Leeds City Gallery. Artists Open Show. |
| 2010 | Batley Art Gallery. 2010 Open Show. |
| 2013 | South Square Gallery, Thornton. Two pieces of work exhibited in The Salon. |
| 2014 | Fabric Art Gallery, Bradford. Le Tour De France group show. |
| 2017 | Goole Library Art Gallery. Goole Open. |
| 2017 | Sunbridge Wells, Bradford. 2 works currently on permanent exhibition. |
| 2017 | Centenary Square, Bradford. Not Just Hockney Group exhibition on public Big Screen |
| 2019 | Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford. . Bradford Open show. |
| 2019 | Digital Exchange, Bradford. Broadway a series of paintings chronicling the construction of Bradfords Broadway Shopping Centre. |
| 2019 | Workshop T:AIM - Palermo 2019. "Stories of Migrant Women" Group show |
| 2019 | Bloomsbury Festival 2019. FiLiA Women's Art Group show |
| 2019 | Leeds Industrial Museum. Commissioned work, "Betty", currently on loan to "Leeds to Innovation" |
| 2020 | Centenary Square, Bradford. Celebrating Local Buildings Group exhibition on public Big Screen |
| 2020 | Dwell Time Special COVID-19 Edition Keep Smiling |
| 2020 | Artbox Gallery, Zürich. Digital Exhibition |
| 2021 | Aire Place Studios Postcards Volume 2, Group show |
