Kelsey Corby
glitter mason & sparkle practitioner
On posing inquiries
towards the material and emotional architectures of queer rage, poetic justice, and apocalyptic longing. ​
Working through the lens of
revenge fantasy, I investigate how
soliloquy, theatrical symbolism, and camp
sensibilities can be used to
re-appropriate and subvert
narratives of power. ​​
Sparkle is employed as both ornament and weapon in a bid to reframe luxury, personal myth, historical reenactment, and industrial catastrophe.​
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Currently, I am undertaking a critical reassessment of glitter's role within my practice, affording select concessions between ecological taboo and cultural persistence.
After the EU glitter ban in 2023, I began focusing on developing alternative methods of producing the “glitter-affect” through organic processes.
I maintain glitter’s position as a resilient queer medium, capable of adaptation under constraint.
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Kelsey Corby holds an Artistic Research MFA and an Autonomous BFA from The Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag.
They are a 2021 Stroom Encouragement Award Nominee and winner of the 2018 David Henry Nobody Jr.’s ‘One Minute Project’ Prize.
They’ve taught art writing with the DOK Project in 2022 at KABK and painting courses in SUNY Schenectady in New York.
Corby has been featured in Jengens & Tevens, Lost Painters, and Metropolism M.
