Sterling Rose Kelly (they/them) is a trashy textile artist and scavenger stitcher, storyteller, and bass player.

Sterling Rose Kelly’s art is a root-system. Their threads patch together subculture and fan culture histories with folklore and magic; stitching together the links between people, nature and the fluid universe.

Using textile repair techniques, scavenged materials and glittery-kitsch treasures, they explore cycles of death and rebirth, trauma and healing.
Sterling’s storytelling voice weaves and twists its way through the artwork, joining the lines of the constellation with their post-apocalyptic pagan-punk folk stories, always asking:
What do we scavenge from the ashes?
How do we grow back stronger?

Sterling Rose Kelly is also the bass player and founding member of all female/nonbinary post-punk band The Red Stains, based in Manchester.