Ken Kelleher’s Papillon Enters the Permanent Collection of Al Khaliji Bank in Doha

For Immediate Release · 2019

Ken Kelleher’s Papillon Enters the Permanent Collection of Al Khaliji Bank in Doha

A three-metre bronze sculpture is installed in the lobby of the bank’s new headquarters.

Doha, Qatar

DOHA — Internationally recognized sculptor Ken Kelleher, also known as Anchorball, has completed Papillon, a three-metre bronze sculpture now part of the permanent collection of Al Khaliji Bank, installed in the lobby of the bank’s new headquarters in Doha.

Realized in bronze — a material associated with permanence and cultural value — the work brings Kelleher’s Elemental vocabulary into a significant institutional setting, giving the headquarters a distinctive and enduring identity.

A bronze in a bank lobby is a statement about permanence. Papillon was made to be part of that institution’s identity for generations — quiet, confident and lasting.
— Ken Kelleher (aka Anchorball)

For institutions and collectors, the commission demonstrates the movement of Kelleher’s work into permanent corporate and cultural collections.

Papillon is among the earliest of Kelleher’s major international institutional placements, part of a body of work now installed across four continents.