Biography
Oli Kellett (b. 1983) is a photographer based in London and the Midlands.
He graduated from Central St. Martins Graphic Design course in 2005
and spent the following few years working as an Art Director at a number
of London's leading advertising agencies.
In 2008 he took the decision to concentrate solely on photographic projects
and has since had work nominated in the National Portrait Gallery Portrait
Prize 09 as well as the Host Gallery Summer Shows 08 and 09.
His work explores the everyday, the average and the overlooked.
Statement
"You'll find Northamptonshire on the way to somewhere else, somewhere
more exciting. You'll usually pass through it if you're heading North
or South on the M1, or West to East on the A14. Northamptonshire is
right in the Centre of England, for all who ask if it's in the North.
I spent nearly everyday for eighteen years in Northamptonshire growing
up. It is where all my family are from. In fact, if my family wasn't
from there, I'm not sure I would know where it is either. This is because
Northampton is not like other towns, like Bath or Bristol, where people
are happy to travel to from other counties to spend a long weekend.
Northamptonshire is understated and that's what I like about it."