Kellie O’Dempsey in Noosa Regional Gallery | 8.12.23

Image: Kellie O’Dempsey, 2023, She Does (working title), installation, video, furniture. Videographer: Jorge Serra. Sound: Mick Dick. Movement Consultant: Ruby Donohoe. Photographer: Warwick Gow.

Kellie O’Dempsey is showing in Noosa Regional Gallery with her exhibition ‘She Does (working title)’ between 2 December 2023 - 18 February 2024.

She Does (working title) gives visual form to the memory and experience of the liminal space between dying and death. In caring for someone exiting this life, Kellie O’Dempsey felt like they were a caretaker of memories; and the objects—cupboards, boxes, antiquities and personal effects—wherein these memories are infused. She Does (working title) uses these objects to explore the complex fragility, intimacy, exhaustion and monotony of this temporal space, when one is confronted with their own mortality via the death of a parent. Drawing on installation, performance and video, O’Dempsey ritualises care and nurtures relationality to quietly honour women’s unseen labour and question the value of care in a society that values capital.

Exhibition entry is free.