Vestige Collective
Vestige Collective
Wonkytooth dub @ Station Street Studios
June 2014
Kellie O’Demspey in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Tanya Voges together investigate new forms in Hybrid art production via dance, live performance and drawing.
This collaboration has had support from the Choreographic Research Residency, Tasters / Testers with Critical Path (Choreographic Research Centre Sydney).
Together developing performance and choreographic strategies, Choreographer Tanya Voges and Visual artist Kellie O’Dempsey were in mentorship with New Media Expert Mic Gruchy, Dramaturg Martyn Coutts and Cognitive Psychologist Dr Kate Stevens. The production team also included the work of filmmaker Tim Standing, technical designer Paul Osbourne, sound artist Mick Dick and photographer Maylei Hunt.
Vestige Collective is the collaborative vehicle through which innovative applications in digital manipulation and audience participation are utilised to create an inclusive and interconnected form of cultural interaction. The collaborative piece is available to a broad cross section of the community to generate narratives that are unique to location. These stories are responded to through dance, new media projection, live feed video and sound. A montage of shared experiences becomes transformed into a mesmerising theatrical encounter.
The unique way that Vestige Collective combines both the analogue (drawing and dance) and digital (projections and audience sourced data) to realise that the vision for this project creates an emergent multi-faceted performance that fuses physical and virtual performance modalities. In developing this cross-disciplinary work designed for broad cultural audiences and diverse spaces, Vestige Collective generates an inclusive form of cultural experience.
Photographer: Maylei Hunt
Videographer: Tim Standing
A General Map of Caves
A General Map of Caves
Hawksbury Regional Gallery
18 April – 15 June 2014
Find the Opening Night Responsive Performance here.
Five artists who convey, through drawing, a unique interpretation and palpable connection to their subject. The artworks faithfully recount a journey into their world and remain as a record of the vast and intimate territories they’ve experienced and the physical and psychological spaces they have encountered. The cave is a metaphor for the abyss–the deepest recesses into the artist's exploration–while the map acts as an invitation to the void in which the viewer is free to invest. New and existing works are created by Locust Jones, Talitha Kennedy, Catherine O’Donnell and Kellie O’Dempsey. Film by Matt Creswell, performance by Tanya Voges.
Tanya Voges’ performance at the Art Shed, BigCi. Projections by Kellie O’Dempsey.
For more information and more video clips, check out http://bigci.org/new-news/
Elysium
Elysium
Lateen Lane | Byron Bay NSW
2014
ELYSIUM brought together a team of creative professionals driven by a desire to activate under-utilised urban spaces and transform them into places of wonder and beauty. The project’s aim was to uplift and enliven a key CBD site through a curated application of colour, pattern, light, form, texture and planting–integrated with existing structures and in collaboration with tenants and building owners.
A transformation project of this scale and calibre is a first for Byron Bay. ELYSIUM intentionally moved away from traditional imagery associated with the area and instead aimed to provide locals and visitors with something entirely different–an immersive and contemporary art experience.
Find the installation video here.
DRAWinternational
Artist in Residence at DRAWinternational
2013
Caylus | France
As an artist in residence at Draw International, I developed a body of work investigating hand drawn gestural mark making in combination with live digital drawing. Incorporating elements unique to Caylus, France resulting in site-specific installation in Vitrine that overlooks the market square.
I made drawings of the villagers during the day and experimented with digital projections in the evening. A progressive drawing installation work combined my observations and interest on Medi-evil surfaces and ancient stonework combined with the people of Caylus.
This project investigates time, space, and movement as narrative and intends to avail an opportunity and a possibility for interaction way through experiential making and play. Identifying and unraveling notions of public and private space via drawing, I explore the interconnected experience of human engagement and hope to perform a public work.
Photographer: John McNorton
Biennale of Sydney
Biennale of Sydney
August 24 2012- Programmed by the Biennale of Sydney
An evening where drawing meets music, artist Kellie O’Dempsey transformed Pier 2/3 before your eyes. Teaming up with MonaFoma collaborator, musician Mick Dick, the pair created lines and forms against a backdrop of dubbed out Zen jazz and organic sound samples.
Photographer • Grant Macintyre Scarlett
MONA FOMA
MONA FOMA
PW1 Hobart
19 January 2012
Cultural skeptics like to think art and music do not mix ‘and never the twain shall meet’. Well, Kellie O’Dempsey is an artist who is out there to prove them wrong. Collaborating with musicians and aided by projections she captures on canvas, or Perspex, or whatever surface takes her fancy, she produces figurative lines, rhythms and forms through vibrating sound. Expect nothing less than an audio-visual riot.
Kellie O’Dempsey and Musician Mick Dick performed with festival curator Brian Richie (Violent Femmes and The Break) and the Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra produced an extraordinary experiential installation. On 40 meters of paper to the sounds of 2 double Basses, Shakahachi, Tuba, Trombone, Saxophone ,Tabla and percussion of Lindsay Arnold, Kellie wielded hand drawn lines of ink, paint, charcoal. Finishing with digital projections to John Cage’s ”Ryoanji” which is a musical depiction of a Japanese rock garden to a captivated audience of over 800.
The musicians were:
Don Bate-Trombone
Tim Jones-Tuba
Danny Healey-soprano sax and Chinese flute
Linzee Arnold-drums (Linzee is also a very prominent visual artist, search him)
Sam Dowson-tabla and percussion
Nick Haywood-double bass
Brian Richie-shakuhachi
Mutable + Luminous - MONA FOMA 2012 - https://vimeo.com/47977096
Kellie O’Dempsey and Musician Mick Dick performed with festival curator Brian Richie (Violent Femmes and The Break) and the Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra produced an extraordinary experiential installation. On 40 meters of paper to the sounds of 2 double Basses, Shakahachi, Tuba, Trombone, Saxophone ,Tabla and percussion of Lindsay Arnold, Kellie wielded hand drawn lines of ink, paint, charcoal. Finishing with digital projections to John Cage’s ”Ryoanji” which is a musical depiction of a Japanese rock garden to a captivated audience of over 800.
Photographer • Georgina Tait
Paper Jam Roll
Paper Jam Roll (3 parts)
June 2011
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts | Brisbane, Australia
Artists - Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick, Azo Bell and Peter Dehlsen
Put 20 meters of paper, an artist who draws like a maniac, a double bassist, guitarist and drummer with inks, pastels, brushes, electronic drawing projections, a time limit, put it all together in one room and you've got a Paper jam roll.
Live performance drawing artist Kellie O'Dempsey and the improvisational groove of musician Mick Dick (The Knie), Azo Bell and Peter Dehlsen together are inspired by the direct encounter with the audience (you), the site (the Valley) and the experience (the happening).
They invite the audience to be part of in the evolution of a visual and aural installation performance art work by merely being present. Come join the transforming liminal space,
"you come as a spectator and maybe you discover you are caught in it after all..."
- The blurring of art and life. Kaprow p15
Nancy Pellegrini, the Classical and Performance Editor of Time Out Beijing/Time Out Shanghai was present during Kellie's performance in Shanghai 2010, she said:
“Having visual art and performing arts going on at the same time was thrilling, and left me with an incredible feeling of completeness, as if the furthest reaches of my brain were being touched all at once.
Kellie's work was never distracting or obtrusive; she was an equal partner to the musicians, turning out work of equal value. The work itself so captured the emotions of the afternoon, and the feeling of mental fullness I so enjoy but so rarely find.”
Paper Jam Roll - Part 1
June 4 2011
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts | Brisbane
Paper Jam Roll - Part 2
June 2011
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts | Brisbane
Paper Jam Roll - Part 3
June 4 2011
Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts | Brisbane
Photographer + Videographer: Cal MacKinnon
The Rick Amor Drawing Prize
The Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2010
Art Gallery of Ballarat
Rick Amor, one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists, has sponsored a competition for small drawings at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. This inaugural exhibition of nearly 80 works was selected from more than 600 entries submitted.
Kellie’s charcoal drawing on paper Mutable collage #3 was shortlisted from the numerous entries.
Kellie O’Dempsey Mutable collage #3 2010, charcoal on paper, 6mm x 40mm.
there is 'roadkill' on the walls?
there is ‘roadkill’ on the walls?
Turbine Hall | Brisbane Powerhouse
21 November - 20 December 2007
Don’t forget to breathe
Don’t forget to breathe
1999
Writer/Director/Animator – Kellie O'Dempsey | Sound Design – Brian May
In his malaise, a young man acts (much to his surprise) to make change.
