Kaleidoscope Editions

The idea for Kaleidoscope Editions came to us as the 2020 pandemic continued into 2021, and as our hometown of Melbourne was affected by successive lockdowns. We began to talk about what we wanted to change in our lives and in the art world, and of the need for ingenuity. How could three highly qualified and experienced women in the arts create, work, and collaborate differently? We knew that we wanted the system to change, and that we wanted to create and work within a culture of generosity; one with care and respect at its heart. Yet rather than trying to change existing structures and projects, we decided to create our own, and so, Kaleidoscope Editions was born.

It's important to us that Kaleidoscope Editions provides new creative opportunities for artists and that this occurs within a supportive and equitable business model. We are not commercial gallerists or secondary market dealers – we are curators motivated by our love of art and of empowering and supporting artists to make great work. Driven by our shared passion for works on paper (and dogs, and champagne … but that’s another story!) we want to support Australian artists to reimagine original prints and multiples and transform how their work reaches and engages audiences. Most of all, we want to have fun, and ensure that everyone we collaborate with shares our passion and excitement about making this a reality.

Kelly Gellatly

Kelly Gellatly is a curator, writer and arts advocate and the Founding Director of Agency Untitled. Kelly is the former Director of the Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne (2013-20) and was Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Victoria from 2003 to 2013. She has also held curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra and Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne.

Kelly has curated more than 50 exhibitions of the work of leading Australian and international artists and has an extensive publishing history on contemporary art, Australian modernism and photographic practice. She is passionate about facilitating and encouraging the broadest possible access to the arts, particularly contemporary practice, and to supporting the leadership potential of women in the arts.

Kelly is Chair of the Sheila Foundation and a board director of Experimenta.

Kirsty Grant

Kirsty Grant is a curator, writer and art consultant with a specialist knowledge of Australian art developed over two decades working with major public collections. From 2015-16, as Director and CEO of Heide Museum of Modern Art, she oversaw the artistic direction and operations of one of Melbourne’s most loved art galleries. Prior to that she held various curatorial positions at the Queensland Art Gallery and National Gallery of Victoria, being appointed Senior Curator of Australian Art - responsible for paintings, sculpture and decorative arts made before 1980 – at the NGV in 2007. In 2006 she was awarded the Harold Wright Scholarship to study prints and drawings at the British Museum, London.

Kirsty has curated numerous exhibitions on the work of Australian artists including Fred Williams, Robert Jacks, John Brack, Robert Klippel and Yvonne Audette, as well as publishing and lecturing widely on various aspects of Australian art and design

Kirsty is Deputy Chair of the Museum of Australian Photography Committee of Management and a board director of Arts Project Australia.

Bronwyn Johnson

Bronwyn Johnson is a leading arts producer with three decades’ experience producing, curating, and delivering highly successful exhibitions and events.

Bronwyn was CEO and Artistic Director of the Melbourne Art Fair from 1996 to 2011, delivering an estimated $52M in sales to living Australian artists. In 2003 she established the Melbourne Art Foundation (MAF) and the MAF Awards for the Visual Arts to advocate for contemporary art practice and the wider contemporary art sector.

From 2014–2020 Bronwyn devised and produced CLIMARTE’s ART+CLIMATE=CHANGE festivals to inspire action and understanding on climate change through exhibitions, performance works, lectures and events across Melbourne and regional Victoria’s public and private gallery sector.

Bronwyn produced the outdoor theatre program for the 1990-92 Melbourne International Festival of the Arts and project managed the opening of Southgate Cultural Precinct for the Victorian Arts Centre.

Bronwyn has served on several Boards, including as President of Arts Project Australia; steering it through the introduction of the NDIS.