Building connections between people, places and ideas
Image: School of Water, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022.
Photography: Four Minutes To Midnight
Featured Work
School of a Spinning Planet is a four part exploration of place based community philosophy anchored in the seasonal equinoxes and solstices.
A two day field school engaging in swampy ways of knowing Gurmabai/ Rapid Creek and it’s catchment through creative and place based research.
A collaborative workshop exploring legacies of nourishment and pollution in the Gurambai/Rapid Creek.
Gathering Ground was a generative walkshop series, using embodied reading, walking and making to expose and transform relationships between people and places.
Testing Ground was a ritual of recovery responding to the damage to the ‘Ilparpa Claypans’, caused by dumping and invasive weeds.
Local Knowledge shared a patch work of stories from Mparntwe/Alice Springs through mapping and walking tours.
Doctoral Research
Tender Places developed anti-colonial community philosophy practices for responding to climate change through place based, creative research.
Consultancy
Kelly-Lee specialises in collaborative design, research and resource development that supports healthy land, healthy communities and healthy futures in the Northern Territory and beyond. Her practice is underpinned by principles of hospitality, care, and a commitment to methods and practices that increase access and depth of engagement in learning, planning and decision making.
