About the Artist

Portrait of Kelly Farley

I am a ceramic artist devoted to process—years of sustained practice at the kiln, in the studio, and in the patient discipline of craft. My work is shaped by material attention: clay pushed to its edge, surfaces marked by fire, and forms built through repetition until they become their own language.

Nature is my ongoing teacher. Immersed in wild landscapes and shifting light, I return to the studio with a desire to honor what I observe—growth, erosion, quiet resilience, and the beauty that emerges through time.

Many of my installations assemble ceramic spheres with industrial chain, linking individual forms into expansive, suspended fields. Each sphere holds its own presence, but together they speak more loudly: a portrait of interconnectivity—how we are bound to one another, how our lives carry weight, and how a collective can hold a significance larger than any single part. In The Little Prince, the fox teaches that relationship is created through time, ritual, and attention—and that it carries responsibility. That idea lives at the center of my practice: each work is something I have patiently “tamed” through devotion to craft, and in return it asks for stewardship, care, and integrity.

Suspended in space, the installations invite the body to slow down and look—how light passes through links, how shadows stitch themselves across walls, how mass can feel weightless. I hope the work carries both tenderness and gravity, offering a quiet place to sense connection.

The work becomes an embodied metaphor for legacy: one voice, joined to many, shaping a shared story across space. I am multidisciplinary, and alongside sculpture I write poetry—another way I build meaning through rhythm, attention, and the lived texture of the world.

“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
—The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (wording varies by translation)