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8 unusual facts about Mary Kelly


Bettina Pousttchi

From 1999 to 2000, she attended the renowned Whitney Independent Studio Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, where Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Mary Kelly, Hal Foster, and Benjamin Buchloh were among her teachers.

Brixton Artists Collective

Well known names who exhibited often very early in their careers include Mona Hartoum, Zarina Bhimji, Sutapa Biswas, Hamad Butt, Sokari Douglas Camp, Cathy de Monchaux, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Sunil Gupta, Ulle Holm, Ridgeway Bennett, Jamie Reid, Tina Keane, Sandra Lahire, Peter Kennard, Silvia Ziranek, Rasheed Araeen, Gavin Jantjes, Mary Kelly, Peter Kalkhof and David Medalla.

Ellen McMahon

Her book pays homage to Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document: Documentation I, Analysed faecal stains and feeding charts.

Margaret Harrison

Between 1973 and 1975 she collaborated with artists Kay Hunt and Mary Kelly to conduct a study of women's work in a metal box factory in Bermondsey, London.

Mary Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly, National Public Radio's senior Pentagon correspondent

Mary Jane Kelly (1863–1888), widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of Jack the Ripper

Mira Schor

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, 1994, an historical overview of the Feminist movement published by Abrams, “Patrilineage”, 2002, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and Ana Mendieta.

New Hall Art Collection

In 1986, the College acquired Mary Kelly’s Extase (thanks to the generous support of the Eastern Arts Association and the artist herself) following her stay as artist in residence.


Glyn Maxwell

Other plays include Wolfpit, about two green children said to have appeared in Suffolk in the 12th century (Edinburgh 1996; New York 2006), The Forever Waltz, a reworking of the Orpheus-Eurydice story (New York 2005; Edinburgh 2005), and The Only Girl in the World, a play about Mary Kelly, the last victim of Jack the Ripper (London 2001).


see also

Margaretta D'Arcy

Big Plane, Small Axe, the mis-trials of Mary Kelly, 2005, awarded 2nd Prize for Best Feature Documentary at Galway Film Fleadh, and also shown at Cork Film Festival, Portobello Film Festival, Human Rights Documentary Festival (Glasgow), and the 'Irish Film Festival' (San Francisco).

William H. Upham

Some two years after the death of his first wife, Mary Kelly, in 1912, Upham (then 73) undertook a voyage along the Atlantic coast, that was forced by storm to harbor at Beaufort, North Carolina.