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.
Fighting for Breath was a collaborative spoken word soundscape produced with James Mangohig for the 2024 Red Dirt Poetry Festival.
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.
What stories of trade and travel are hidden in our everyday items? A teaspoon, a phone, a pair of shoes – these objects have shadow lives filled with other people and other places.
Small. Slow. Humble was an invitation to consider radical alternatives to the current models of creative success. This interactive forum blended community conversation, reading group and ritual to create space for reflection, discussion and visioning about how we, as artists, might nurture small, local and inclusive practices within our individual and collective practices, in the places where we live, work and love.
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.
