She is the twin sister of New Zealand politician Sue Kedgley and wife of retired diplomat and broadcaster Chris Laidlaw.
[3] Kedgley and Laidlaw travelled extensively for his diplomatic career for two decades, with Kedgley taking several arts-related roles as they moved about, including as a designer at the Science Museum in Oxford and at the African National Gallery in Zimbabwe.
[3] On her return to Wellington, Kedgley became involved in Page 90 Artspace Gallery, a women's art initiative in Porirua.
[4] Kedgley curated more than 50 exhibitions at Pātaka, including The Eternal Thread - The Changing Art of Maori Weaving, a partnership with Toi Māori Aotearoa and Tourism New Zealand, which was launched in San Francisco and toured the west coast of America and the 2008 exhibition Samoa Contemporary, the first large-scale exhibition of contemporary Samoan art.
[3] Kedgley has also exhibited her own abstract paintings in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Zimbabwe and India but focused on her career as a curator.