Dirt and Ash
Dirt and Ash :: Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey
20 October – 2 December 2018 | Opening Night 19 October 2018
Gallery 1: The Margaret Olley Gallery, Lismore Regional Gallery | Lismore, Australia
Kellie O’Dempsey and Fiona Fell | Sound: Mick Dick
Kellie O’Dempsey and Fiona Fell perform Dirt & Ash, an immersive multimedia installation about the relationship between the artist and work of art with Mick Dick’s (sound artist) performance on opening night.
Exhibition was opened by Dr Barbara Bolt, Professor in Contemporary Arts and Culture, Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.
Dirt and Ash displays a dynamic exchange between two mid-career artists. Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey explore the links between artists’ bodies, ceramic sculpture and performance drawing and video as they inquire into the nature of each other’s creative processes. As works are built, stacked, re-formed and incorporated through performance and live drawing–the underbelly of their creative practices is exposed.
Sharing the material relationships of clay and charcoal, the shared experience of loss and survival is uncovered (in terms of life and their creative processes). Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey dramatise their perseverant search for presence, synchronising moments in the studio as performance.
Links | Catalogue // Lismore Gallery website
Exhibition Images
Performance
Videogragher: Steven Kwan
Exhibition Catalogue
Credits | Photographer: Darcy Grant // Videographer: Steven Kwan
The never-ending line
Kellie O'Dempsey: The never-ending line, NGA Play at The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Saturday 16 June – 28 October 2018
National Gallery of Australia | Canberra, Australia
Kellie O’Dempsey invites you into her living sketchbook, an immersive space of moving marks and dancing lines. Digital projections collide with traditional drawing in a series of dynamic and colourful experiences and creative opportunities. Contribute to the unique drawing journey as you follow the never ending line to shadow puppets, 3D drawing constructions and live animation before getting into the drawing rink for an immersive drawing experience. The never-ending line investigates drawing as a way of collaboration and transformation as it features sound elements composed by Mick Dick.
Links: NGA website
Media: SMH Article | City News Article
Exhibition
Performance
Videographer - Sixth Row
Videographer - Sixth Row
Credits | Videographer: Sixth Row
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
Ensemble
Ensemble
June 2018
Projection on William Jolly Bridge | Brisbane, Australia
For the Brisbane Classic Music Festival
Presented by BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL
Ensemble was originally created live during a performance featuring members of the Shanghai Chamber Ensemble. Describing two of the violinists, the dynamic and bold brush marks were a direct response to the virtuosity of the musicians playing. This drawing interprets the energy and flow of sound through a fluid and liquid application. It creates itself as a direct translation of drawing music in real time.
Credit | Photographer: Andrew Willis
Becoming Becoming
Becoming Becoming
13 April – 20 May 2018 | Exhibition Opening 13 April 2018
Umbrella Studio Contemporary Arts | Townsville, Australia
Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Mick Dick | Dancers: Dance North Felix Samson and Samantha Hines
Becoming Becoming is a dynamic site generated installation that explores the links between the human body, making and transformation through improvisation. Both a live performance and as an exhibition, this work maps processes of collaboration and aliveness through live drawing and collaboration. With Sound artist Mick Dick, Dance North dancers Felix Sampson and Sam Hines the gallery space is expanded through live performance and digital projection.
Attempting to entice all those who enter Becoming Becoming is a living collage through the flow of line, sound, colour and projection an immersive engaged environment evolves.
Links | Umbrella Studio event page // Invitation
Image credit | Photographer: Angela Little
Moving Through
Photographer: Lois Lim | Performer: Marisa Georgiou
Moving Through
Performance at Flowstate | Brisbane, Australia
Saturday 27 October & Sunday 28 October 2018
Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Mick Dick | Performers: Saara Rappola & Marisa Georgiou
Produced by Metro Arts and South Bank Corporation
Funded by Australia Council for the Arts
Moving Through is a spirited, site-generated image and sound performance that imagines the intermediate space between this life and the next.
Performance installation artist Kellie O’Dempsey draws on a personal tale that reveals the importance of ritual when dealing with death. Moving Through maps a guided journey of departure and brings the space to life using digital drawing and animated video projection with physical performers and sound.
Moving Through culminates in two stunning and visceral evening performances.
Links | Flowstate Event Page
Videographer: Thomas Oliver
Credit | Videographer and Photographer: Thomas Oliver
Re-Generating
Re-Generating
28 - 29 September 2018
Exhibited as part of Lit Festival, Stories in Light | Toowoomba, QLD
Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Michael Dick | Dancer: Ella Colborn
Playing with light, line and the live act, Re-Generating interrogates public and private spaces as shared experience.
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