25 Jul 2021 – 29 August 2021
Redland Gallery | Cleveland, QLD
Visuals by Kellie O’Dempsey, sound by Mick Dick and AR by Helena Papageorgiou.
Wish You Were Here began as a response to the pandemic’s lockdown life. Uncanny household objects collide with uncertain landscapes. In search of progress, multiple figures attempt to travel, yet go nowhere in this oddball world. Their figurative and abstract forms gently smash together as we all fumble for connection. Wish You Were Here is an immersive installation of collaged works on paper, projected animation, sound and Augmented Reality (AR). Through repetitive rhythm and monotonous loops, non-specific locations and an unspecified time, this work blends the physical and the psychological for a moment of hypnotic but joyful reprieve.
7 May 2021 – 16 May 2021
Botanica - Contemporary Art Outside | City Botanic Gardens | Brisbane, QLD
Kellie O’Dempsey, Michael Dick (sound), Helena Papageorgiou (augmented reality).
On the epidermis of a tree's leaves, microscopic pores called stomata exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. The world 'stomata' comes from the Greek word 'stoma' meaning 'mouth'. What did you say? reimagines a tree's stomata as the mouth through which the planet breathes.
Using augmented reality, projected imagery and a soundscape of breathing, the artwork responds to our strange and ever-shifting social and environmental climate.
1 Oct - 30 Oct 2020
Video Projection, 40 metres long
Wagga Wagga Library and Council Façade | Wagga Wagga, NSW
Visuals: Kellie O’Dempsey | Sound: Mick Dick | Videographer: Damien Jenkins from Next Inline Productions | Performers: Wes Boney, Zoë Hadler, Natasha Strimpf
Time Tracing recreates the map lines of the Murrumbidgee river as giant water drawings in the earth, which over time, move, extend and connect. Working in collaboration with local Wagga Wagga artists, this large scale video work incorporates dance, movement and sound simulating the power of the Murrumbidgee river catchment. Filmed on the banks of the river at dusk, with indigenous and non-indigenous emerging performers Wagga Wagga, in a collision of moving bodies, lines and repetition, the video aims to celebrate the River’s connection to the land and people it supports across time.
2019
Performance at Museum of Brisbane
For BRISBANE ART DESIGN (BAD), Mick Dick and Kellie O’Dempsey teamed up with performers Saara Roppola and Marisa Georgiou to perform new work and engage in discussions about their co-operative making process.
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28 March - 20 April 2019
Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School NSW, Australia
Artists: Kellie O’Dempsey, Catherine O’Donnell and Todd Fuller.
Sound: Mick Dick
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
Hardenvale – our home in Absurdia is a real-scale, immersive, house-like environment. Through drawing, projection, built form, sound and movement, this collaborative project references the architecture of 1960s Western Sydney Government housing as well as spaces the group describe as ‘the cultural fringe of Australia’.
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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 and sound elements composed by Michael Dick.
Dirt and Ash :
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. Mick Dick (sound artist) performing on opening night and exhibition soundscape installation.
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
2018
Performance at Flowstate, Brisbane. Artist: Kellie O’Dempsey & Sound: Mick Dick; Performers: Saara Rappola & Marisa Georgiou
Moving Through is a stirring, site-generated image and sound installation of memory and loss. 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. As a part of Death fest .03 2018
Videographer: Thomas Oliver
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2018
Performance at Flowstate, Brisbane. Artist: Kellie O’Dempsey & Sound: Mick Dick; Performers: Saara Rappola & Marisa Georgiou
Moving Through is a stirring, site-generated image and sound installation of memory and loss. 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. As a part of Death fest .03 2018
Photographer: Thomas Oliver
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YOYETTA - Mick Dick, Azo Bell and Nick Fisher play live with Kellie O’Dempsey drawing live visual projections as part of the Sydney Improvisors Composers Kollektiv Organisation performance in Sydney 2018.
2017
Presented by Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Live performance installation and collaboration with Kellie O’Dempsey, Mick Dick, Marisa Georgiou and Saara Rappola.
This work is an evolving and fluid encounter and the culmination of a research enquiry into performance drawing as a hybrid and cooperative practice. Using light, sound, movement and space, the notion of arriving in the present is explored. Converging at the intersection of the live event and improvisational exchange, away and towards searches for a destination that is always here.
Videographer Andy Willis, Image Copyright Kellie O’Dempsey
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2017
Presented by Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Live performance installation and collaboration with Kellie O’Dempsey, Mick Dick, Marisa Georgiou and Saara Rappola.
This work is an evolving and fluid encounter and the culmination of a research enquiry into performance drawing as a hybrid and cooperative practice. Using light, sound, movement and space, the notion of arriving in the present is explored. Converging at the intersection of the live event and improvisational exchange, away and towards searches for a destination that is always here.
Videographer Andy Willis, Image Copyright Kellie O’Dempsey
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2016
Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia.
Sarah Houbolt, Kellie O'Dempsey and Michael Dick.
unSeen (confined space), is a sensory game of call and response exploring perception and the disparate. Using drawn lines, body gestures, digital projection and sound design, this live getsumkuntswerk or total artwork starts a feedback loop that informs an unwritten script as the artists unite with each other without verbal communication. Together they interrogate the public and the private, and what is seen and unseen within a small space. Performed by Sarah Houbolt, Kellie O'Demspey and Mick Dick.
Videographer: Fiarrah Harraif
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2016
Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia.
Sarah Houbolt, Kellie O'Dempsey and Michael Dick.
unSeen (confined space), is a sensory game of call and response exploring perception and the disparate. Using drawn lines, body gestures, digital projection and sound design, this live getsumkuntswerk or total artwork starts a feedback loop that informs an unwritten script as the artists unite with each other without verbal communication. Together they interrogate the public and the private, and what is seen and unseen within a small space. Performed by Sarah Houbolt, Kellie O'Demspey and Mick Dick.
Photographer: Fiarrah Walsh
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2016
Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia.
Sarah Houbolt, Kellie O'Dempsey and Michael Dick.
unSeen (confined space), is a sensory game of call and response exploring perception and the disparate. Using drawn lines, body gestures, digital projection and sound design, this live getsumkuntswerk or total artwork starts a feedback loop that informs an unwritten script as the artists unite with each other without verbal communication. Together they interrogate the public and the private, and what is seen and unseen within a small space. Performed by Sarah Houbolt, Kellie O'Demspey and Mick Dick.
Photographer: Fiarrah Walsh
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2016
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick
Featuring the live drawing performance A line in the night, from 8.00pm, Newcastle Art Gallery becomes the canvas for artist Kellie O’Dempsey and musician Mick Dick to collaborate and respond to sound and the immediate environment.
Just Draw celebrates drawing and its many possibilities, performance, multimedia, installation, sculpture, kinetics and robotics. This exhibition present Australian artists who leverage the possibilities of this deceptively simple medium.
Photographer Anna Hill
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2016
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick
Featuring the live drawing performance A line in the night, from 8.00pm, Newcastle Art Gallery becomes the canvas for artist Kellie O’Dempsey and musician Mick Dick to collaborate and respond to sound and the immediate environment.
Just Draw celebrates drawing and its many possibilities, performance, multimedia, installation, sculpture, kinetics and robotics. This exhibition present Australian artists who leverage the possibilities of this deceptively simple medium.
Photographer Todd Fuller
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2016
Newcastle Art Gallery, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick
Featuring the live drawing performance A line in the night, from 8.00pm, Newcastle Art Gallery becomes the canvas for artist Kellie O’Dempsey and musician Mick Dick to collaborate and respond to sound and the immediate environment.
Just Draw celebrates drawing and its many possibilities, performance, multimedia, installation, sculpture, kinetics and robotics. This exhibition present Australian artists who leverage the possibilities of this deceptively simple medium.
Photographer Todd Fuller
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2016
POP Gallery, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
A drawing conversation by Piyali Ghosh (India) and Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia)
with Sound by Mick Dick (Australia)
An improvised drawing performance for one night only.
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2016
POP Gallery, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
A drawing conversation by Piyali Ghosh (India) and Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia)
with Sound by Mick Dick (Australia)
An improvised drawing performance for one night only.
Photographer Emma Wright
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2016
POP Gallery, Woolloongabba, Brisbane
A drawing conversation by Piyali Ghosh (India) and Kellie O’Dempsey (Australia)
with Sound by Mick Dick (Australia)
An improvised drawing performance for one night only.
Photographer Emma Wright
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2015
The Hold Art Space, Brisbane, Australia
Kellie O'Demspey and Michael Dick
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2015
The Hold Art Space, Brisbane, Australia
Kellie O'Demspey and Michael Dick
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2015
White Night Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Draw/delay is a 12 hour durational live performance drawing and sound mix installation, Kellie O’Dempsey and Mick Dick revealed 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 in a dirty laneway in Melbourne at the 2015 White Night.
Photographer Georgina Tait
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2015
White Night Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Mick Dick and Kellie O'Dempsey
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.
- Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald
Photographer Georgina Tait
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2015
White Night Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Mick Dick and Kellie O'Dempsey
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.
- Cameron Woodhead, Sydney Morning Herald
Photographer Georgina Tait
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Mick Dick with Crusty Dub Crew
Byron Bay
Mick Dick with Crusty Dub Crew Bone chant version, live in Byron Bay @ the Double Bassment
2014
DJ Wonkytooth playing it Dub Stylee @ Station Street Studios Mullumbimby
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June 2014
Vestige Collective
Wonkytooth dub @ Station Street Studios
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 team also included the work of film maker Tim Standing, Technical designer Paul Osbourne, photographer Maylei Hunt and sound artist Mick Dick.
Videographer: Tim Standing
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June 2014
Vestige Collective
Wonkytooth dub @ Station Street Studios
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 team also included the work of film maker Tim Standing, Technical designer Paul Osbourne, photographer Maylei Hunt and sound artist Mick Dick.
Photographer: Maylei Hunt
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2013
A Book About Death
Tweed River Regional Gallery, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mick Dick and Vasudah Harte
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2013, Jul - Dirtyfeet, Carlton Shopfront Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mick Dick, Tanya Voges, Shauna Browne, Gemma Dawkins, Jessie Hoeschle, Alison Plevey, Rob McCredie, Hayley Michner, Mel Tyquin, Ivey Wawn and Kate Champion.
2013, Jul - Dirtyfeet, Carlton Shopfront Theatre, Sydney, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mick Dick, Tanya Voges, Shauna Browne, Gemma Dawkins, Jessie Hoeschle, Alison Plevey, Rob McCredie, Hayley Michner, Mel Tyquin, Ivey Wawn and Kate Champion.
2013 - Drawn to Experience, POP Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Brisbane, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick.
2012, Aug - Pier 2/3, Sydney Biennale, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick.
2012, Jan - MONA Festival 2012, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mick Dick, Brian Richie and The Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra (Don Bate-Trombone, Tim Jones, Danny Healey, Linzee Arnold, Sam Dowson and Nick Haywood)
2012, Jan - MONA Festival 2012, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mick Dick, Brian Richie and The Tasmanian Improvisers Orchestra (Don Bate-Trombone, Tim Jones, Danny Healey, Linzee Arnold, Sam Dowson and Nick Haywood)
2011, Dec - Dynamic Drawing - Grafton Regional Gallery, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick.
From Kellie's website:
Kellie O’Dempsey was the artist in residence at Grafton Regional Gallery December 2011. Kellie is a live performance drawing and installation artist who captures dynamic gestural line work using traditional drawing materials. Her vibrant approach includes interdisciplinary collaboration with other performance artists and musicians. Each performance included live music by sound artist Michael Dick, multi-media projections and dynamic drawing which responds to the audience place and atmosphere.
2011, Nov - Tibet Effect - Byron Bay Community Centre, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Tenzin Choegyal, Lhamo Dolma, Mick Dick, Ian Draaisma and Elyjah McLeod.
2011, Jun - Paper Jam Roll - Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, Brisbane, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey and Mick Dick, Azo Bell and Peter Dehlsen.
2011, Mar - Moving Lines - 4fold Gallery, Lismore, Australia
Kellie O'Dempsey, Mick Dick, Azo Bell and Peter Dehlsen.
Live dub mixing performance - The Quad- Lismore Regional Art Gallery
Mick Dick aka Wonkytooth mixes his own dub riddims in a sea of projections by Kellie O’Dempsey.
