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PERFORMANCE DRAWING INSTALLATION ARTIST

Focusing on live art and performance drawing Kellie O’Dempsey develops inclusive site-specific installations and performances. Working both solo and in collaboration with sound and contemporary dance, Kellie is currently completing a Doctorate in Visual Arts at Queensland College of Art in Brisbane.

Hybrid in form, incorporating projection, video, collage, architectural space, gestural line, performance and digital drawing Kellie describes her work as Performance Drawing. This diverse practice investigates notions of transformation through improvisation and happenstance. O’Dempsey’s public and private production aims to enable an inclusive form of cultural interaction via performance and play.

Combining hand drawn marks with digital projection and live animation this interdisciplinary approach is experiential and emergent. The performance drawing works invite the audience to engage directly with the visceral process of making.

Kellie’s performances include; Art after Dark, Pier2/3 18th Biennale of Sydney, MONA FOMA, Hobart, and The Firehouse, New York, White Nights Melbourne

Group shows include: 2014: Is this Art?- dLux Arterial Gallery, Sydney/ A general map of caves, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery NSW/ Finalist, Sunshine Coast Art Prize 2013: Drawn to experience, POP Gallery Queensland College of the Artsqualifications

2015 (currently) Doctorate in Visual Arts, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

2008 -10 Southern Cross University Lismore, NSW, MA in Research, The spectacle of performance drawing

1999 Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Graduate Diploma of Film and Television (Animation)

1996 Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Drawing major)



exhibitions/performances/ group exhibitions

2016

Just Draw (group show) Newcastle Regional Gallery, Newcastle and Bathurst Regional Gallery, NSW

Is this Art- dTour, dlux (group show), Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, NSW

It’s Liquid Experimental Cinema And Video Art Festival (screening), Kent, UK

Before I leave (silent), drawing collaboration with Piyali Gosh (India), POP Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane

2015

Draw to Perform Symposium 2015, Number 3, London

uNatural, collaboration with Jaanika Peerna (NY/Estonia) ANU Canberra

White Night Melbourne, Draw/ Delay, collaboration Sound artist Michael Dick-12 hour performance

2014

Watershed International congress, University of Barcelona, Spain

dlux Is this Art V2, dLux Arteral Gallery, Sydney

A general map of caves: Drawing exhibition, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW

Sunshine Coast Art Prize (Finalist), Caloundra Regional Gallery

JADA Drawing Symposium, performance collaboration with Tod Fuller, Grafton Regional Gallery

2013

Live Drawing in the Vitrine, Draw International Research Centre, Calyus, France

Dear Mum, A book about Death, The Tweed River Art Gallery, NSW

Drawn to experience, POP Gallery Queensland College of the Arts

2012

The Firehouse, Brooklyn, New York

Art after Dark, Pier2/3 18th Beinnale of Sydney

Mutable+Luminous– MONA FOMA, Hobart, Tasmania

The JADA Drawing Prize (Finalist), Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

The real and the illusory – Loughborough University Drawing Research Conference, UK

The Drawing Group, Rembrandt in the Bolten Pardigm, Lismore Regional Gallery

2011

Paper Jam Roll, Judith Wright Centre for Contemporary Art, Brisbane

Moving lines– next Art Gallery, Southern Cross Uni Lismore

2010

Glamor Performance, M on the Bund, Shanghai, China

Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2010 (Finalist) Art Gallery of Ballarat, VIC

2009

The Spectacle of Live Drawing Tweed Regional Art Galley, Murwillumbah

2008

Home studio & Home front–24/7&Norco, Lismore Regional Art Gallery

Hang live hang still in the valley– Artisan 24/7, Brisbane.

there is roadkill on the walls – The Brisbane Powerhouse

Home – Lismore Regional Gallery

2007

Convictions– Nanjing, University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China

grants/awards/residencies

2014

Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship– PHD Candidature QCA, Brisbane

NAVA Travel Grant for Future Forward, Sydney

Critical Path, Taste and Testers: Artist residency and Development with Tanya Voges

Artist in Residence, at The Big Ci, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, NSW

2013

Arist in Residence, Draw International Research Centre, Calyus, France

2012

Arts NSW, Quick response grant

Artstart – Professional development grant Australia Arts Council

Artist in Residence, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York

2011

Freerange – Artist In Residence development collaboration Metro Arts & Australia

Council, Brisbane

Artist in Residence, Grafton Regional Gallery, NSW

2008-10

Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship– Masters Candidature S.C.U. Lismore

2004-05

Queensland Arts Council – Regional Exhibition Tour, Drawings that Dance

relevant work experience

2014-16

Lecture in Drawing , Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane

Co-convener of Draw International Griffith Symposium