As creative & design director of Kelly Ross Design, my team and I have delivered projects across Australia spanning immersive installations, boutique and luxury hotels, hospitality, product activations + manufacturing, private stadium suites, warehouse conversions and mud brick cottages. .

My practice is deeply interested in how environments influence behaviour, memory, and subconscious experience.

I completed a BA in Human Environment Design, exploring the intersection of psychology, design, and architecture with a double major in Set Design and construction before embarking on a 13 year theatre career touring inter/nationally as a Head of Department on large-scale musical productions including Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Dusty Springfield, and The Producers across Australia and New Zealand. 

This experience developed my strengths in technical delivery, collaboration, leadership, logistics, stakeholder communication, and high-performance, complex, creative environments.

Postgraduate studies at the International School of Colour & Design (ISCD) led to Industry Excellence recognition and a 7 year teaching and curriculum design role within the Interior Styling, and Interior Design departments, alongside establishing my design studio. My work included course development and facilitation, public speaking, conference presentations, interstate workshop facilitation, and co-designing the new Interior design campus guided by sustainability and circularity principles. I am currently an Industry representative at Sydney Design School supporting emerging designers. 

Research, materiality, systems thinking, sustainability, and more-than-human design are central to my approach, alongside transdisciplinary collaboration with artists, architects, lighting designers, videographers, graphic designers, makers, educators, and fabricators to create thought provoking and long lasting sensorial experiences.