Edward Kelly

Painting Sea Cross is in the collection of the National Gallery of the Isle of Man. • Illustration — Sea Cross, Acrylic on canvas In 1969 he exhibited with Sylvia Goth at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, as a John Moores scholar. In 1980 he exhibited with Simon Willis at Bedford Way Gallery in London. From 1999 to 2001 he exhibited in group shows at Culture Gallery, Broadway, New York. In 2012 he filmed an interview with playwright Peter Terson, excerpts of which were screened at the British Film Institute. Ken Kiff praised his "hard won images" in 1987.

Edward Kelly moved from London to an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in the Wye Valley in the mid 1980s. During the late 1990s increasing trend towards the use of agricultural polytunnels came to dominate the landscape in some parts of the Wye Valley, and in particular near the artist's residence. He launched the Campaign for Polytunnel Control which seeks that erection of polytunnels should be controlled by planning permission, owing to their massive scale and visual impact. In relation to the campaign Edward Kelly has been interviewed by national press and has appeared in national newspapers and on TV and presented at various government hearings and government reports. He was portrayed as a character in Pentabus Theatre Company's play "Strawberry Fields" that dealt with the issues associated with migrant workers in industrial scale strawberry farms.