KEL
GLAISTER
EDUCATION
2013 - 2015
Masters of Fine Arts
Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow
2001 - 2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Hons
Monash University
Melbourne
PARKOUR EXPERIENCE
2014
Co-director
Clamjamfrie
The first national parkour gathering for women and girls in the UK
2013- 2015
Organiser and Coach
Edinburgh Parkour Women
2011 - 2015
Organiser and Coach
Glasgow Parkour Girls
2013 - 2015
Chair, Vice Chair
Roots of Movement
The national representative body of parkour in Scotland
2014 - present
Organiser, coach
Women of Melbourne Parkour
2017 - present
Committee member, Victorian representative
Australian Parkour Association
2021 - present
Ambassador, Social media coordinator
Parkour Earth
2018 - present
Director
Melbourne in Motion
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
Aesthetic Error
Telfer Gallery
Glasgow, Scotland
2012
In camera, a closet drama for the gallery
ACC Galerie
Weimar, Germany
2011
MDR: All comedy is someone in trouble
Light projects
Melbourne, Australia
2011
MDR: All comedy is someone in trouble
Boxcopy
Brisbane, Australia
2009
On side
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
Melbourne, Australia
2008
Busting Out
Conical Inc
Melbourne, Australia
2008
These endless days
Blindside
Melbourne, Australia
2006
Infinity from the other end (don't worry)
Kings ARI
Melbourne, Australia
2006
Luck has nothing to do with it
West Space
Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2011
POST for Power to the People
Hannah Mathews and Caterina Riva
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
Melbourne
2013
Does it Matter?
Anabelle Lacroix
Kings ARI
Melbourne, Australia
2021
RESET
curated by Rachel Iampolski and Ilana Razbash
RMIT Gallery
Melbourne, Australia
2013
Film Script, Dance Manual, Walking Tour
curated by Frank Motz
Halle 14
Weimar, Germany
2012
On Dilettantism
curated by Frank Motz
ACC Galerie
Leipzig, Germany
2011
Relay: Repeat action over distance
curated by Tamsin Green
Firstdraft
Sydney, Australia
2011
Beautiful Volcanoes
curated by Michael Vale
Monash University Museum of Art
Melbourne, Australia
2011
Each Action Equal
curated by Catherine Connolly
Level ARI
Brisbane, Australia
2010
Plutôt que rien: démontage
curated by Raphaële Jeune with Frederic Neyrat
Maison Populaire
Paris, France
2010
Joke Work
curated by C U Next Tuesday group
Atelier 1537
Paris, France
2010
I try to help give form to the many options available to them
curated by Daniel Munn
A Centre for Art
Auckland, Aeotearoa
2010
The Aesthetics of Joy, The Infinite International of Poetics
Brad Haylock and Bernard Sachs
West Space
Melbourne, Australia
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2018
Towards a Taxonomy of Movement
Workshop at international parkour leadership conference
Art of Retreat
2022
Facilitating Inclusive Classes
Workshop for parkour instructors
Australian National Gathering, Perth
2022
Play
Podcast appearance
Movers Mindset with Craig Consandine
2022
Parkour Vision
Workshop for various audiences
Melbourne Knowledge Week
2021
Parkour Vision: Mapping the city through Play
Presentation and workshop with Ale Prunotto and Di Medina
MPavilion
2020
Interview
with John 'Hedge' Hall
Art of Retreat Lives
2020
Oppressive Spaces, Urban Design, and Parkour's Radical Potential
Podcast appearance
SouthPaw
2019
Parkour: Learn About Your City
Workshop for various audiences
Melbourne Knowledge Week
2019
Urban Subversion
Panel curated by Rachel Iampolski
MPavilion
2019
Community Parkour
Podcast Appearance
Embrace the Void
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2008
Young Artist's Grant for These Endless Days
City Of Melbourne
2008
Arts Development Grant for curating Objects in Space
Arts Victoria
2008
Studio Artist
Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces
2010
Arts presentation grant for curating 'A quarter turn on every screw'
City of Melbourne
2010
Studio residency
Cite Internationale des Artes, Paris
2010
Skills and Arts Development Grant
Australia Council
2011
17th International Studio Program, 'On Dilettantism"
ACC Galerie Weimar, and the CIty of Weima
2011
New Work Grant from In camera
Australia Council
2012
Studio Residency
Glasgow Sculpture Studios
CURATING
2013
Goings-On
as part of The Task
Etnam St
2013
Stories
as part of The Task
Emma St
2015
Joke Work
with the C U Next Tuesday Group
Atelier 1537
2010
A quarter turn on every screw
Kings ARI
2008
Objects in Space
with Imogen Beynon and Tamsin Green
Next Wave Festival
2008
Signage
with Tamsin Green
Kings ARI
2008
Stand in
with Imogen Beynon
Kings ARI
2007
Things in a room
Kings ARI
2007
Nonchalantly unimpressed
Victoria Park Gallery
2007
Nothing rhymes with failure
Victoria Park Gallery
WRITING - BY KEL
2009
Mod off
With Amy Marjoram for exhibition of the same name
2009
It's just one thing after another
Catalogue essay for 'Everything you ever wanted to know about fashion', Brad Haylock,
Platform ARI, Melbourne
2010
A quarter turn on every screw
Catalogue essay for exhibtion of the same name, curated by Kel Glaister
Kings ARI, Melbourne
2010
Everything's up for grabs
Catalogue essay for 3Square 2, Conical, Melbourne
Conical Inc, Melbourne
2010
Put the work in the space and walk away?
Catalogue essay for 3Square 2, Conical, Melbourne
Conical Inc, Melbourne
2010
A mode or tense which to talk through
Catalogue essay for 3Square 1, Conical, Melbourne
Conical Inc, Melbourne
2010
Only joking
Catalogue essay for Joke Work
2011
Persons in tense
Response to Alex Martinis Roe interviewing Wendy Webster
Alterations
2017
Parkour Branding and Misogyny
See and do blog, edited by Julie Angel
See and do blog, edited by Julie Angel
2019
Categories of Fun
Melbourne in Motion blog
Melbourne in Motion blog
2022
‘One Neat Trick’ for getting women into parkour doesn’t exist
with John 'Hedge' Hall, for the Parkour Earth website
Parkour earth blog
WRITING - ABOUT KEL
2011
Writing Sculptures
Alicia Frankovich
AF
"‘Quality. Is being good enough?’ was a line in your recent 3SQUARE text piece for Conical Inc. in Melbourne, which led me to think of something Thomas Hirschhorn once said in an interview: ‘energy yes, quality no’. This is where I’d like to start with this interview. There is a post-apocalyptic, increasingly less material artist ‘present-ness’ in the way you are working. A witness, a lurcher, an intervener, a cabaret host of sorts, that is how I see your modus-operandi at the moment. Your work seems to have shifted towards somewhat evasive written formats that hover around the art object. What do you think?.."
2011
One and Three Texts
Stephen Palmer
2011
GAG
Edward Colless
Catalogue essay for MDR - All comedy is someone in trouble
2011
Mocking Cream
Francis Parker
Catalogue essay for MDR - All comedy is someone in trouble
2008
Unfolded Interview
Tamsin Green and Alex Martinis Roe
Interview - Kel Glaister and Simon Horsburgh
2008
In flagrante delictico
Kit Wise
Catalogue essay for these endless days
2008
Eight notes towards Aesthetic Error
Stephen Palmer
atalogue essay for Aesthetic Error
2007
Making space: the freedom to mess
Amy Marjoram