Artists in Conversation :: Fiona Fell and Kellie O'Dempsey
11am Sat 20 Oct
Gallery 1
Join artists Fiona Fell and Kellie O’Dempsey as they discuss their work and collaboration in Dirt & Ash. The exhibition explores the links between artists’ practices and incorporates mediums of clay, charcoal, sound, video and live art/performance.
Fiona Fell is a practicing artist and academic. She has had over 20 solo shows, received several international grants and is part of many public and private collections both national and international. These include the National Gallery of Australia; Queensland Art Gallery; FLICAM- Australasian Museum, Fuping, China; Cera- Techno, Toki City, Japan; Power House Museum, Sydney; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan; and numerous nationwide regional galleries and University collections.
Fiona lectures in Sculpture and Spatial Practices, Art and Design at the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University. She recently completed PhD studies at Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University.
Kellie O’Dempsey is an artist, curator and scholar. Kellie has produced drawing and digital based artworks, performances and installations for over fifteen years in diverse locations – from regional Australia to regional Italy, France, New York and London. Revealing the process of making as performance, Kellie works in collaboration with performers, dancers and musicians, building site-generated works as shared experience. In 2018 O’Dempsey exhibited The Never-ending Line, NGA Play, The National Gallery of Australia Her digital and time-based outputs include collaborations with Jennifer Woblewski (NY), Piyali Gosh (India) and Jaanika Peerna (NY/Estonia), and her public performances have been staged at White Nights Melbourne, N3mber Performance Space, London, and MONA FOMA.
Kellie lectures in drawing at Queensland College of Art and has her PhD at Queensland (Australian Postgraduate Award Scholarship) at that university.
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