MOVING IMAGE WORKS
Since 1997 Deborah Kelly has been experimenting with animation and filmmaking. Some of her works are freely available online:
One minute greeting to aliens
A collaboration with Christian Heinrich commissioned by Willoh S Weiland for her project Forever Now, and beamed into space.
A stop motion collaboration with Wayang Cyber2, in Bandung, West Java
More recent works are only available for curators and scholars to view. For access to these works, please contact the artist here.
Beastliness (2011)
Beastliness invokes cascading, prancing, preening, predatory, coupling metaphor, savagely spliced with mad science. The work’s tender violence is performed without anaesthetic, sutured with history, mythos, mobilised archetype. The animation of Beastliness synthesises traditional handmade photomontage with digital animation techniques into a new whole; an entirely artificial dance with sexy, reckless sirens.
LYING WOMEN (2016)
A stop motion animation with soundtrack by Evelyn Ida Morris that has been shown in festivals and galleries around the world. You can see a teaser here:
You can listen to an ABC interview with curator/scholar Julie Ewington on LYING WOMEN here.
The animation is in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and other museums, more info here.
The Gods of Tiny Things (2019)
This collage animation has been screened in more than 40 festivals. It is the centrepiece of a solo exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne March-October 2021. Here is an interview about the work:
Download The God of Tiny Things press info here.
For Creation (2021)
For Creation is an elaborate contemplation of the great weight, the myriad complexity, the glittering webs enveloping matter and sentience. Combining playful proposition, ardent queerness, elegy and homage, this new moving image artwork forms a call to congregants of CREATION. Made over three years, around entwined global crises of health, climate and justice, For Creation is animated paper collage constructed from the ruins of obsolete books. In Sydney, Kandos and Darwin, collage workshop participants collectively studied SJ Norman’s glorious Liturgy of the Saprophyte, the new sacred literature at the heart of the CREATION project, and their resulting artworks form figure and field.
To view a private preview link (for curators only) please make your request here.
