Before I leave (silent) /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Before I Leave (silent)

POP (Post Graduate and other projects) Gallery, | Woolloongabba, Brisbane
16 January 2016

A drawing conversation by Piyali Ghosh (India) and Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia)

Sound by Mick Dick (Australia)

An improvised drawing performance for one night only.

Presented by Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research & Woolloongabba Art Gallery

 
 

Photographer and Videographer •  Emma Wright

 

Bomb the Wall /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Bomb the Wall
Queensland College of Art
Friday October 2, 2015

KELLIE O’DEMPSEY + FLATLINE (TODD FULLER AND CARL SCIBBERAS)

Visual artist Todd and dancer and choreographer Carl Scibberas in collaboration with Kellie O’Dempsey. Bomb the Wall of the Griffith Galleries for the closing of Drawing International Brisbane 2015.

 
 

Photographer •  Lisa Kurtz

 

Under Arena - Drawing International Brisbane /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Under Arena
Exhibition at Spring Hills Reservoir as a part of the Drawing International Brisbane (DIB) Symposium 2015: Ego Artefact, Arena
Spring Hill Reservoirs | Brisbane, QLD
30 September, 2015

Artists: Kellie O’Dempsey | Bill Platz | Zoe Porter | Flatline (Todd Fuller And Carl Sciberras) | Velvet Persu

A group of artists engage with performance and drawing to respond to a unique Brisbane landmark. The subterranean Spring Hill Reservoirs and the Old Windmill present a theatrical environment in which live drawing, sound, video and dance coalesce.

Kellie O'Dempsey and Michael Dick, installation view of Under Arena 2015. Photographer Matthew Loyd

Kellie O'Dempsey and Michael Dick, installation view of Under Arena 2015. Photographer Matthew Loyd

Kellie O’Dempsey: Artist + Curator of the performance art event Under Arena. Opening the Drawing International Brisbane Symposium 2015, Under Arena was an initiative of the Griffith Centre For Creative Arts Research.

Under the auspices of Griffith University, Queensland College of Art through the assistance of The National Trust and Brisbane City Council, Under Arena was representative of the artistic interdisciplinary dialects involved in the creation of a lexicon of contemporary performative practice. Michael Dick: Sound artist working in direct response to the action of Kellie O’Dempsey. Michael provides the synaesthetic vehicle from which the art work resonates toward a palpable liminality. You may also notice throughout the soundscape the vocals of performance artist Velvet Pesu.

Taking place on the 30 September 2015 at the historic Spring Hill Reservoir, this conveyance is a subjectively inflected inference of the artistic intent of Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick.

Exhibition images – installation view:

 
 

Documentation: Emma Wright, Simon Marsh, Matthew Loyd

 

Drawn to Experience V2 /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Drawn to Experience V2
Artists: Gosia Wlodarczak (VIC/Poland), Entang Wiharso (Indonesia), Flatline (NSW), Hannah Quinlivan (ACT), Jaanika Peerna (Estonia/NY), Mar Serinya (Spain), Lugas Syllabus + M.A. Roziq (Indonesia), Robert Andrew (QLD), Nicci Haynes (ACT), Bill Platz (QLD), Kevin Townsend (USA), Jodi Woodward (NSW), Benjamin Sheppard (VIC), Piyali Ghosh (India), Kellie O’Dempsey (QLD)

Curated by Kellie O’Dempsey

QCA Galleries
POP Gallery | 27 Logan Road, Woolloongabba
22 September – 3 October 2015

ANU
ANU School of Art Main Gallery, ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences
9 – 31 October 2015

Exhibition catalogue can be found here.

 
 

This survey explored the expansive act of performance drawing—the act and action of drawing, its processes as theatre, line, motion and record, positioning drawing within an interdisciplinary platform. The group exhibition consisted of works on paper, digital drawings, video and a live drawing performance. In conjunction with the Drawing International Brisbane (DIB) Symposium (papers from DIB can be found here).. Drawn to Experience V2 also toured to the ANU Gallery, Canberra.

Gosia Wlodarczak, A Room Without A View — drawing performance Day 5, 2013, a 17-day drawing performance held in a specially constructed sensory limitation room at the RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Pigment pen, polymer paint on MDF board, space …

Gosia Wlodarczak, A Room Without A View — drawing performance Day 5, 2013, a 17-day drawing performance held in a specially constructed sensory limitation room at the RMIT Gallery, Melbourne. Pigment pen, polymer paint on MDF board, space dimensions: 260 x 340 x 220 cm. Photographer Longin Sarnecki. Image courtesy the artist and Fehily Contemporary, Helen Maxwell and BOXOProjects New York/Joshua Tree

 
 

Photographer (exhibition):  Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Bald, Bald Head and Other Stories /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Bald, Bald Head and Other Stories
The Hold Artspace
27 May – 6 June 2015

Bald, Bald, Head and other stories explores the mythical and romantic relationship between the artist, studio and the muse. Investigating the notions of the public and the private. Kellie O'Dempsey and sound designer Mick Dick will transform and manipulate the gallery space through a playful installation of drawing, video and performance.

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Photographer 

 

uNatural /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

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Art Forum, Visiting Artist, Drawing and Print Media Department, School of Art
Print Media and seminar room | Australian National University, Canberra
26 March 2015
Kellie O’Dempsey + Jaanika Peerna (Estonia/NY)

Collaborative drawing performance at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 2015.

Jaanika Peerna: movement drawings by hand.

Kellie O’Dempsey: drawing and digital via projections (light drawings) that would draw on existing spaces between the works, connecting them in response to Jaanika’s performance.

Collaborating through performance drawing, Jaanika Peerna (Estonia/NY) and Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia) exchange directives like weather patterns; lines build and change embodying a shared experience. This international collaboration connects directly in the expanding fields of live drawing. Jaanika describes her force as connected to nature, the natural phenomena of the self. Where Kellie work is site-generated, responding directly to Jaanika’s performance and the space via the ephemeral light drawings that build, move and disappear.

 
 

Photographers •  Kellie O’Dempsey and Jaanika Peerna

 

Draw to Perform 2 – London /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Draw to Perform 2
Number 3 Performance space | Deptford, London, UK
16 – 17 March 2015

Artists: Gerald Royston Curtis (UK), dolanbay (Berlin), Poppy Jackson (UK), Ram Samocha (Israel/ UK), Yara Pina (Brazil), Jordan Mckenzie (UK), Bettina Fung (Hong Kong/UK), Kevin Townsend (USA), Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia), Bertrand Flachot (France), Jennifer Wroblewski (USA), Holly Matthews (UK), Shoshanah Ciechanowski (Israel), John Court (UK/Finland), River Lin (Taiwan), Gosia Wlodarczak (Poland/Australia), Rachel Grant (Scotland/UK).

 
 

Draw to Perform 2 was a collective live drawing installation event in London, independently curated by artist Ram Samocha. International artists presented works using conventional drawing tools—pencils, charcoal, and markers—and unconventional digital prints, experimental mark making methods, and labouring tools, including Polyfilla and plumber’s twine. The nature of these materials determined how the artist acted, moved, and performed in the space. Concurrently performing drawings for six continuous hours, the twelve artists (including Kellie O’Dempsey) used diverse strategies in accordance with their own practice, working within self-determined parameters in separate areas of a warehouse.

The space was open to the public as a live durational time-based performance. The audience could wander through or participate in (some) works according to their desire and interest. As witnesses, the audience activated the space, which made them participants in the event. The space or site of a performance drawing can inform the work. The Draw to Perform 2 venue was a warehouse in South London. It was a coId, hard, dark concrete building in an inner-city industrial area. The location can also invariably affect and establish how the performance drawing is read.

Kellie’s own performance drawings at the event were a direct response to the space and those who occupied it during the six hours. The installation or configuration of her setup was designed according to the architectural features of the corner she inhabited. Using materials gathered from the local hardware and art shop, digital projections, and black tape, the images traversed two walls and the floor. She drew both the moving gestures of the audience and the other artists that could be seen from her space, constantly swapping materials from traditional means to live digital drawing and animation in an attempt to respond to the mechanics of the environment. She drew River Lin as he moved through his floured surface; she drew the viewers who passed by and those who stayed; She attempted to draw the ever changing now. As people moved, the drawing was altered, producing an evolving observational tableau.

Video https://drawtoperform.com/draw-to-perform-page/draw-to-perform2/videos/
Draw to Perform 2 website

Other artists performances

 
 

Photographer · Marco Berardi

 

Draw/Delay – White Night Festival Melbourne /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Draw/Delay • White Night Festival Melbourne 2015
Caledonian Lane | Melbourne CBD
7pm — 7am, February 2015
Artists: Kellie O’Dempsey and Mick Dick

Draw/Delay is a performance drawing and sound installation which reveals the workings of art-making as both a public and private event. Through live drawing and seductive audio manipulation, the romantic notion or myth of the artist in the studio is exposed.

An improvised collaboration with musician Mick Dick, artist Kellie O’Dempsey responds directly to sound and the immediate environment with live performance, marks on paper and digital drawing. Along with video and audio installation, the audience are invited to engage directly with the visceral process of creating. O’Dempsey investigates the uncanny, aiming to enable a playful and inclusive form of interaction.

White Night Festival event website

PRESS

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

White Night Melbourne 2015: Up all night for dusk till dawn party
February 22, 2015
Cameron Woodhead

Almost every alleyway held a niche event – some trash, some treasure. The best of them was Kelly O’Dempsey and Mick Dick’s Draw/Delay – a beautiful fusion of live drawing, digital art and music that exposed the creative process to a public, and participatory, gaze.

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SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

White Night Melbourne 2015: The best of an all-night spectacle
Debbie Cuthbertson
February 21, 2015

A small scale highlight of
the night came from a live art and music collaboration between digital sound man Mick Dick and painter Kellie Dempsey. Taking place on Caledonian Lane with milk crates for seats, the show was aimed at exposing the process of making art. Dempsey delivered in spades using both a projected e-tablet along along with angular and deft brushstrokes on the canvas. Dick’s soundtrack was suitably mesmerising.

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Experiencing Draw/delay at Caledonian Lane  
Katherine Lim

RED AND BLACK ARCHITECT (online magazine)

Draw/Delay saw traditional drawing artwork collide with multimedia to create a performance piece. This event explored the artistic methods of drawing as a performance piece. The collaboration between artist Kellie O’Dempsey and musician Mick Dick, was an action collage with sketches on paper projected on to a wall merged with simultaneous paint brushed directly upon the ‘canvas’, all set to a moody soundtrack. The live nature of this event showcased the creative process of the artist rather than just the ‘finished product’ making it an ideal inclusion in the White Night programme.

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Photographers · Georgina Tait

 

Corner Dance Lab /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

The Corner Dance Lab
Jasper Corner Federal | NSW
24 January 2015

A week-long collaboration between Philip Channells (Dance Integrated Australia) and Gavin Webber (The Farm). They were involved in a consolidated week of working with 10 renowned teachers sharing daily routines, practice, ideas and experiments with emerging and established dancers and choreographers.

Kellie O’Dempsey working in collaboration with Visual Artist Musician Ben Ely.

Classes are led by Phil Blackman, Philip Channells, Hsin-Ju Chiu (Raw), Kate Harman, Lee-Anne Litton, Grayson Millwood, Kimberly McIntyre, Timothy Ohl, Laurie Young and Gavin Webber.

 
 

Photographer: Veda Dante

 

Falls Festival 2014 /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

THE KELLIEO COLLECTIVE
Falls Festival | Byron Bay
December 2014

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Art Camp at Falls Festival 2014 Kellie O’Dempsey–with collaborating campers–developed, painted and installed 100 metres of crazy hand gestures gripping a long black line on hessian. This massive painting/fencing surrounded the Falls Art village.

 
 
 
 
 

JADA Performance /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

JADA (Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award) Drawing Symposium

Grafton Regional Gallery | NSW
Saturday 18 — Sunday 19 October 2014

Artists: Todd Fuller, Kellie O’Dempsey and Mick Dick

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Drawing takes new forms in the digital age. Brisbane based Kellie O’Demspey and Sydney based Todd Fuller unite for a live drawing performance. Merging digital drawing through the tag-tool application, with traditional drawing and animation; the pair generate a multi-layered 4 dimensional ephemeral artwork.

Sound by Mick Dick.

Photographer: Todd Fuller

 

Dis/close /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Dis/close
Kellie O’Dempsey
2014 | Digital video | 4:23 minutes (performance photographs)

This work aims to discuss the relationship between the individual and the constant manipulation of facts by the media and governing political powers, which appear to conceal and blindfold the populace. In silence, through a game of reveal and conceal, the environment and the appearance of an individual is transformed through digital drawing that exposes the head of a man in disquiet and contemplation. The hand drawn, pixelated lines consistently uncover, redefine and blur what is actually available to us. Through the process of drawing as enquiry, Dis/close identifies and investigates the interconnected experience of human engagement. The use of the Tagtool (live digital drawing and animation device) aims to translate those elements into a drawn video work that allows an authentic process of collaboration and improvisation. The outcome, a strange, poetic intervention of the digital drawing that uncovers, confuses and transforms an isolated man.

Describing her work as a Performance Drawing practice, O’Dempsey aims to enable an inclusive form of cultural interaction via interdisciplinary performance and play. Hybrid in form, O’Dempsey’s practice incorporates projection, video, collage, architecture, gestural line and digital drawing. Investigating notions of transformation and the uncanny, she collaborates with performers combining hand drawn marks with digital projection and live animation. Experimental and emergent, O’Dempsey invites the audience to engage directly with the visceral process of making.

 
 

Photographer and Videographer: Kris Garner

 

IS THIS ART? V2 /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

IS THIS ART? V2
Artreal Gallery | NSW
6 August 2014 | from 6-8pm

Presented by dLux MediaArts in association with Artereal Gallery

Artereal Gallery and dLux MediaArts are proud to present the Second Screening of IS THIS ART? – a quarterly screening program of moving image works, curated by Rhys Votano of dLux MediaArts.

This program will link art audiences with exciting new works by emerging creative practitioners and will incorporate video artworks by established contemporary artists from the Artereal stable. Audiences will benefit from an opportunity to revisit well-known and new works by established contemporary Australian video artists, as well as discover the latest works by emerging practitioners.

Artists: David Asher Brook, Em Hicks, Kellie O’Dempsey, Shoufay Drez, Shivanjani Lal, Nina Ross, Kieran Gilfeather, Brigette Lucas, Grant Stewart, David Greenhalgh, Miniature Malekpour

Dis/close

Dis/close
Kellie O’Dempsey
2014 | Digital video | 4:23 minutes (performance photograph)

This work aims to discuss the relationship between the individual and the constant manipulation of facts by the media and governing political powers, which appear to conceal and blindfold the populace. In silence, through a game of reveal and conceal, the environment and the appearance of an individual is transformed through digital drawing that exposes the head of a man in disquiet and contemplation. The hand drawn, pixelated lines consistently uncover, redefine and blur what is actually available to us. Through the process of drawing as enquiry, Dis/close identifies and investigates the interconnected experience of human engagement. The use of the Tagtool (live digital drawing and animation device) aims to translate those elements into a drawn video work that allows an authentic process of collaboration and improvisation. The outcome, a strange, poetic intervention of the digital drawing that uncovers, confuses and transforms an isolated man.

Describing her work as a Performance Drawing practice, O’Dempsey aims to enable an inclusive form of cultural interaction via interdisciplinary performance and play. Hybrid in form, O’Dempsey’s practice incorporates projection, video, collage, architecture, gestural line and digital drawing. Investigating notions of transformation and the uncanny, she collaborates with performers combining hand drawn marks with digital projection and live animation. Experimental and emergent, O’Dempsey invites the audience to engage directly with the visceral process of making.

 
 

Photographer and Videographer: Kris Garner

 

Responsive Performance - Hawksbury Regional Gallery /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

Responsive Performance for 'A General Map of Caves' - Hawksbury Regional Gallery
Hawksbury Regional Gallery
13 June 2014

Live site-specific performance of drawing, dance, sound & projection by Kellie O'Dempsey and Tanya Voges in response to the current exhibition at Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, 'A General Map of Caves'.

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Photographers and Videographers:  Kellie O'Dempsey and Tanya Voges

 

Vestige Collective /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

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 /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

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.

Tanya Voges' performance at the Art Shed, BigCi

For more information and more video clips, check out http://bigci.org/new-news/

 
 
 
 
 

Elysium /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

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 /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

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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

 

Paper Jam Roll /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

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

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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 /  by Kellie O'Dempsey

 

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.

Kellie O’Dempsey Mutable collage #3 2010, charcoal on paper, 6mm x 40mm.