Building connections between people, places and ideas
Image: School of Water, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, rīvus, 2022.
Photography: Four Minutes To Midnight
Featured Work
Over two days in June 2022, a group of artists and researchers from across ‘Australia’ gathered around on Larrakia/Gulmurrigin land, around the Gurambai/Rapid catchment with a focus on the headwaters at ‘Marrara Swamp’.
Gurambai/Rapid Creek has been a source of life and nourishment for locals and other creatures for thousands of years.
Gathering Ground is a generative writing walkshop, using embodied reading, walking and listening to explore and transform our relationship with place.
Testing Ground was a ritual of recovery, that made visible the damage to the ‘Ilparpa Claypans’, caused by dumping and invasive weeds.
Local Knowledge was a story based place making project, funded as part of the Live Alice Initiative.
The Museum of Intimate Memories is an ongoing project, exploring memory and connection through object based storytelling.
Research
Tender Places was a creative doctoral research project, exploring ecological and social justice, through the settler body, on unceded Arrernte lands.
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.
