Media
Radio Interviews
ABC Radio National - The Art Show with Ed Ayres, ABC
Kellie O'Dempsey and the art of being in the present
Video Interviews
Artist Interview, National Gallery of Australia
Exhibition: The never-ending line, 16 June – 28 October 2018
National Gallery of Australia
Artist Interview, Museum of Brisbane
Exhibition: Outside the Lines, 10 May - 11 Aug 2019
Museum of Brisbane as part of BAD (Brisbane Art Design) Festival
Artist Interview, Lit Festival Toowoomba
Exhibition: Re-Generating, 28 - 29 September 2018
Part of Lit Festival, Stories in Light, Toowoomba
Interview, Drawing International Brisbane Symposium, Griffith University
Paper: Drawing on performance: framing the elements
Exhibition: Under Arena, Spring Hills Reservoir, 30 September, 2015
Part of the Drawing International Brisbane (DIB) Symposium, Griffith University
Education Resources
The never-ending line
Overview | Drawing + exploring | Point of view | Investigating movement
National Gallery of Australia
Publications
Paper: The Emergent Loop of Interdisciplinary Exchange
Griffith University Studio Research Issue #4, November 2016, pp. 20
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Paper: Performance Drawing: Framing the Elements
Kellie O’Dempsey and William Platz
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, Volume 1, Number 2, 1 July 2016, pp. 253-264
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Paper: A gathering dilemma: The Drawing International Brisbane Symposium
Kellie O’Dempsey and Murray Paterson
New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences Volume 2 Number 1, 2013
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Paper: Performance Drawing: The Long Black Line
Kellie O’Dempsey
Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), 2018, Queensland College of Art
This thesis formulates a taxonomic framework for performance drawing in order to explore the potential, processes, scope, and position of the practice. Performance drawing is examined using a practice-led methodology through execution, reflection on, and analysis of, performance events, exhibitions, video, and documentation. The core elements of the act of drawing, the role of the spectator or witness, the experiential or phenomenological dimension, and exchange are identified and analysed to establish the defining characteristics of performance drawing and to highlight its potential to enhance human consciousness. Performance drawing is posited as an interdisciplinary practice that favours the sociability and temporality of performance over the singularity and solitude of the artist and viewer that has been conceptualised in traditional drawing practice.
Thesis: Toward a Taxonomy of Performance Drawing
Kellie O’Dempsey
Masters of Art Thesis, 2011, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW
Through performance as enquiry via drawing, I identify and unravel notions of public and private space that reflect aspects of my identity. This investigation discusses the interconnected experience of human engagement through Performance Drawing as an immediate means of response, the aleatoric processes of collaboration and improvisation, the contemporary definition of site-specific practice, the artist as social leveller, the potential for apolitical social interconnectedness through performance, and the possibilities of transformation through art-making.
Thesis: The spectacle of performance drawing
Kellie O'Dempsey, Curator
South Brisbane: Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, 2015.
DIB 2015 explores the bridging of disciplinary boundaries through drawing from dance and theatre to linguistics, design and interactive technologies. The event brings together delegates from across the country in a range of public programs, exhibitions, performance and installation projects and an international symposium. Nine galleries at the Queensland College of Art and across the city will be overtaken by prominent Australian and international artists exhibiting experimental drawing, performance art, graphic drawing and textile and tape drawing, including an after dark projection on the William Jolly Bridge. Queensland College of Art lecturer Bill Platz says while drawing and printmaking have traditionally been bundled into the graphic arts, drawing as a practice is changing.
Exhibition Publication: DIB 2015
Kellie O'Dempsey, Curator
Woolloongabba: Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, 2015
Surveying drawing and performance this survey explores the act and action of drawing, its processes as theartre, line, motion and record, positing drawing within an interdisciplanry platform. Curated by Kellie O'Dempsey, the group exhibition consists of works on paper, digital drawings, video and a live drawing performance
Exhibition Publication: Drawn to experience V2
Maryclare Foá, Jane Grisewood, Birgitta Hosea, Carali McCall
Acknowledging significant professional contribution to the field, the new publication, Performance Drawing: New Practices Since the 1960s, cites my work in its chapter on light and space. Authored by artists and academics Dr Maryclare Foa and Dr Jane Grisewood, this is the first book published the practice, and includes the work of Carolee Schneemann, Richard Long, Trisha Brown and William Kentridge
What is 'performance drawing'? When does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Through conversation, interviews and essays, the authors illuminate these questions, and what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in a diverse and expressive contemporary practice since the 1960s. The term 'performance drawing' refers to Drawing Papers: Performance Drawings by Catherine de Zegher (2001), with origins in live works decades earlier. In this book, it is used as a trope, and a thread of thinking, to describe a process dedicated to broadening the field of drawing through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence.
Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945 (Drawing In)
News and Articles
More than paper and pencils: Drawing International Brisbane Symposium outlines the art form's future
by Jessica Hinchliffe
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ABC News
Immerse yourself in Kellie O'Dempsey's art in the new NGA Play,
by Karen Hardy
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ABC News
Immerse yourself in Kellie O'Dempsey's art in the new NGA
By Karen Hardy
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Sydney Morning Herald
Interview with Kellie O’Dempsey and Mick Dick for Dark Science
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Echo Daily
Wilson, Kevin. A Performative Entanglement: The Art of Kellie O’Dempsey, Essay, Artist Profile, Issue 62. 2023
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Artist Profile
KOLAJ Magazine
KOLAJ- A Magazine About Contemporary Collage # 37. 2023
Feature on Kellie O’ Dempsey
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Bowker, Sam. Hardenvale: Our Home in Absurdia, Review, Artlink Magazine. 2021
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Artlink
Blake, Rebecca. Transcendence of the benign: ‘Hardenvale’ at Wagga Wagga, Review, Art Monthly Australasia. 2021
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Art Monthly Australasia
Hardy, Karen. Immerse yourself in Kellie O'Dempsey's art in the new NGA Play, Review, Canberra Times. 2018
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The Canberra Times
Wolf, Sharne. Drawn to Experience, Review, Raven Contemporary. 2013
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Raven Contemporary