Continuum /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Continuum
Exhibition: 24 Aug - 1 Sep 2019
The Old Ambo, Nambour as part of Horizon Festival | Sunshine Coast, QLD
Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Michael Dick | Augmented Reality: Helena Papageorgiou

Continuum brings together video, drawing and performance in an installation exploring process and possibility. These works present the ever-changing moment as line and action. Revealing drawing as transformation, using both traditional and digital means, the artist is seen drawing and un-drawing lines in a mesmerising continuum of making.

Links: Horizon Festival | Facebook

 
 
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Horizon Festival was supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland

 
 
 

Outside the Lines /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

Image credit: Jono Searle

 

Outside the Lines
Performance: 24 May 2019 | Exhibition: 10 May - 11 Aug 2019
Museum of Brisbane as part of BAD Festival | Brisbane, QLD
Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Mick Dick | Performers: Saara Roppola and Maris Georgiou

Immerse yourself in a haven of colour, light and sound, as performance and installation artist Kellie O’Dempsey places audiences right in the middle of her artwork, which fuses digital drawing, performance, animated video projection and sound.

For BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD), Kellie teamed up with sound designer Mick Dick and performers Saara Roppola and Marisa Georgiou to perform new work and engage in discussions about their co-operative making process.

Links: Instagram | Brisbane Art and Design (BAD)

 

Credits | Photographer: Jono Searle

 
 
 

Botanica /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

Photographer: Cian Sanders

Photographer: Cian Sanders

 

Botanica
10 May 2019 | Live performance
City Botanic Gardens as part of Botanica by Night | Brisbane, QLD
Curated by UAP (Urban Art Projects) Botanica 2019 was a signature event of the Museum of Brisbane's inaugural Brisbane Art Design (BAD) festival.

Creating live performance drawings from a responsive exchange between line, sound and movement Kellie O’Dempsey opened Brisbane’s annual 2019 contemporary art outside event Botanica. In drawing and animating live lines of light across the surface of the gardens, O'Dempsey simulated the energy of molecules vibrating and growing under the surface of the trees. Employing analogue and digital drawing techniques, Kellie navigated the physical space with line. The performance is the act of drawing and the experience of time that results in a mesmerising state of becoming.

Botanica exhibition is a unique, site-specific art exhibition that has been curated in a contemporary style. Set within Queensland’s heritage garden, providing a complex historical backdrop, the City Botanic Gardens acts as a living museum. Botanica was a signature event of the Museum of Brisbane's inauguralBrisbane Art Design (BAD) festival.

Links: Botanica | Brisbane Art and Design (BAD) | Instagram

Credits | Photographers: Cian Sanders / Faces of Brisbane

 
 
 

Negative Time Echo & The Never-ending –Line /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Never End Negative Time
Screening at Adelaide Festival Centre | Adelaide, SA

Never End Negative Time brings together two video artworks, The Never-ending –Line and Negative Time Echo, in a lyrical conversation about process and possibility.

Investigating the idea that nothing is ever finished these works present the ever changing moment. Exploring drawing as transformation, using both traditional and digital means, the artist is seen drawing as the lines animate themselves in a mesmerising continuum.

 

Image credit | The artist

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Hardenvale - our home in Absurdia /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

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Hardenvale - our home in Absurdia
Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School | NSW, Australia
28 March - 20 April 2019
Kellie O’Dempsey, Catherine O’Donnell and Todd Fuller 
Funded by Australia Council for the Arts, with support from Create NSW, The NSW Artists’ Grant (NAVA)
Also supported by the Parramatta Artist Studios and Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence program

Hardenvale – our home in Absurdia is a real-scale, immersive, house-like environment created by Australian artists Catherine O’Donnell, Kellie O’Dempsey and Todd Fuller. Through drawing, projection, built form, sound and movement, this collaborative project references the architecture of 1960s Western Sydney Government housing as well as spaces the group describe as ‘the cultural fringe of Australia’.

Crossing three generations, these artists’ re-imagine lived domestic space while expanding the practice of drawing to create an intimate and unsettling experience. Harvesting images from personal narratives of imperfect moments (both familiar and strange), Hardenvale is a humble dwelling made from drawing in which to spend, lose or find time. This installation invites visitors to reflect on their own experiences and memories of home.

Links | Catalogue

 

Credits | Images - Silversalt Photography, Peter Morgan and the National Art School // Video - Sound: Mick Dick and Cinematography: Emma Conroy