About Nell

Based in Naarm/ Melbourne, Nell McKellar is a self-taught artist with work in collections across the world including Shanghai Disney, her paintings hanging in the Fantasia themed rooms.

As a child, severe scoliosis meant Nell had to wear a back brace for 23 hours a day from the age of 2 until she was 16. It was during her teenage years that she discovered Frida Kahlo’s painted body braces and her self-portrait in her brace. Kahlo’s work inspired Nell to explore her own themes of sickness, loneliness and trauma using symbolism and surrealism. Painting became an important form of therapeutic inner work, her own safe refuge and source of strength.