Kelly Reedy has over 25 years experience working in Singapore as an artist, art educator, and art psychotherapist. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin, USA, a Master of Education from Hunter College, USA and a Master of Art Therapy from LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore & Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a qualified art psychotherapist, MA AThR, registered with ANZACATA, Creative Arts Therapies in Australia, New Zealand and Asia and ATAS, Art Therapists' Association Singapore. ​

 

Over the course of her career, she has exhibited her mixed-media artworks in Singapore, Paris, Berlin, New Delhi, Yogyakarta, and Chicago. In the field of education, she has facilitated workshops for schools and museums, as well as trained teachers at the National Institute of Education and the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. From 2017 to 2023, Kelly lectured part-time in the MA in Art Therapy Programme at LASALLE College of the Arts. Since 2015 she has practiced clinically as an art psychotherapist, including interning in a nursing home for the long-term mentally ill. She has also worked in trauma-focused care at a residential home for female youth-at-risk and with children who lived through a natural disaster, as well as people experiencing mood and anxiety disorders at the Institute of Mental Health in Singapore. In her private art therapy practice, she welcomes individuals and small groups, and also conducts innovative Therapeutic Imagination workshops.

 

Kelly’s professional areas of interest include exploring holistic therapeutic approaches in relation to artmaking, such as mindfulness practice, nature therapy, ritual art traditions, and Jungian Sandplay therapy. She has presented her research on the therapeutic uses of natural materials in artmaking, as well as cultivating self-compassion in care-givers through artmaking at several international conferences: the Expressive Therapies Summits in Los Angeles (2018, 2022) and New York City (2016) and at the Nourish Arts Therapy & Wellbeing Conference (2018) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In 2021 she wrote the chapter, 'Cultivating Self-Compassion through Found Materials and Rediscovered Rituals' in the book, Found Objects in Art Therapy: Materials and Process, Jessica Kingsley Publishers.