Kelly Thompson

  Kelly Thompson was born in California and lived in New Zealand. Her distinctive seductive illustrations and penchant for beautiful girls have caught the eye of the art and fashion community and launched her career internationally, and she is now one of New Zealand's most popular and most recognised illustrators.
  A nomadic life informs Kelly Thompson's experience as an artist, academic and researcher. Her interests are in exploring notions of location and identity, travel and material culture read through personal experiences and postcolonial discourses. She explore the role of textile as signifiers and the intersections of age-old and 21st technologies to produce new cloth experiences, embedded with narrative content.
  Kelly Thompson is an Associate Professor in the Department of stuudio arts/ fibers and material practices, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Previously she was head of the BA textile program, at Goldsmiths, University of London for four years, and before that at the Otago School of art, New Zealand. She has a BFA from the California College of arts and crafts 1985, and a MA (visual arts) 1994, from the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University.
  Beside fashion illustration, Kelly is a also a photographer and art director, with a creative eye and attention to detail that ensures her vision is realised without compromise. All of her illustrations are very alive and we can see from it how she is so concern about the detail in every images that she created.
   Kelly's clients include Penguin Books, Covergirl, Nintendo, New Zealand Opera, Nike, Mimco, Westpac, Grey Paris and Telecom New Zealand, and she has spoken at the Semi permanent conferences in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane along with hosting Masterclass for Nintendo