Her creative work is influenced by her background in community development, as well as her interests in art, ecology, resistance and emergence.

Kelly’s work has been shown at several major film festivals, has been nominated for the Footscray Art Prize, and has been supported by major arts organisations including The Wheeler Centre and the Emerging Writers Festival.

Her fiction, nonfiction, film and audio work have been published widely, including by Overland Literary Journal, The Sydney Morning Herald, ArtsHub, Island Magazine, Peril Magazine and The Feed.

Kelly is skilled in facilitation, youth and community work, storytelling, project coordination, community participation and knowledge translation. She has worked with diverse groups around complex issues, through community organisations, peak bodies, local government and international NGOs.