THE KELLIEO COLLECTIVE
Falls Festival | Byron Bay
December 2014
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 (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
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
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
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
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 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'.
Photographers and Videographers: Kellie O'Dempsey and Tanya Voges
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
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
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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.
Kellie O'Dempsey, Elysium, 2014. Lateen Lane Byron Bay, NSW. Photographer Callie Marshall
Kellie O'Dempsey, Elysium, 2014. Lateen Lane Byron Bay, NSW. Photographer Callie Marshall
Installation shot of ELYSIUM. artist Kellie O'Dempsey with Michael Dick and Michelle Dawson, projecting images onto the rear wall of the Doctors surgery in Lateen Lane. Source here.
