Step inside the C.U.L.T. studio and encounter the final works created during Deborah Kelly’s 2025 Creative in Residence at UTS Library.
C.U.L.T. (Collaging Using Library Things) unfolded as a series of shared rituals. Discarded books were coloured, cut, collected and recomposed. Pages that once began as trees moved through many lives. From knowledge to archive to renewal.
These artworks were called into form through months of gathering, selecting and recomposing imagery. Throughout the residency, students, artists and visitors coloured and cut alongside Deborah, contributing to a growing archive of forms. From that shared archive of fragments, Deborah composed the final works you see here.
This exhibition invites you to pause with the finished compositions and reflect on the process that brought them into being. A practice grounded in transformation, kinship and collective making.
Behind the scenes, Deborah’s residency works are currently being transformed from collage into something grounding within our Library spaces. Something you will be able to gather around. Expect bold colour. Softness. A new creative pulse woven into the everyday life of the Library.