Deborah Kelly // CREATION

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents Deborah Kelly: CREATION – an artwork in the form of a queer insurrectionary science fiction climate change religion, manifesting across visual art, literature, new holy music, sacrelicious foods, dance steps and disco.

CREATION confronts climate crisis and truth decay with a crowd-sourced faith drawn from practical politics, mysticism and a wild array of collaborations.

CREATION spans video, animation, photography, music, paper collage, costume, textiles, and a suite of new porcelain platters which premiere in Bathurst. Artistic leaders SJ Norman (Liturgy), Lex Lindsay (music), Angela Goh (dance), James L King (costumier), Stereogamous (dance anthem) and Alia Ardon (film) have expanded the faith through their artforms. In Bathurst, farmer Cathie Hale and brewer Ian Carman are working with local produce to develop this contemporary mythology’s sustenance.

Deborah Kelly is a Melbourne-born, Sydney-based artist who has exhibited around Australia and internationally, including in the Biennales of Singapore, Sydney, Thessaloniki, TarraWarra, Cementa, and Venice. Over the past decade, Kelly has been working with groups of strangers in cities around the world to make experiential collaborations emphasising process, community, and aesthetic intensity.

Click to view Deborah Kelly interview with Ineke Dane for Art Guide!

Image: Deborah Kelly, CREATION Lismore Luminaries Regalia Portraits. Noah Mead-St Clair: The Serpent, Elyatta-Adelaide Manton: Infinity, AñA Wojak: The Spider. Courtesy Deborah Kelly. Photo: Mia Forrest.