FLYING ARTistry
Flying Arts Alliance
Projection Possibilities – Curated by Kellie O’Dempsey
Judith Wrights Arts Centre, Brisbane
1 – 31 Oct 2024
Lauren Edmonds, Nikolas Kiriakos, Kelsey Woods, Kylie Stevens
Rising Crises was the result of a workshop & program facilitated by Flying Arts Alliance with artist Kellie O’Dempsey. The workshop and following opportunity to project this work was part of Flying Art’s FLYING ARTistry project which saw the organisation that champions regional artists in Queensland take management of the Judith Wright Arts Centre Projection Program for 2024-25.
My work was one of four selected from a larger group of artists that attended a weekend projection art workshop with O’Dempsey in July 2024.
The video and photography of this project was made possible through the Regional Arts Development Fund.
The Regional Arts Development Fund is a partnership between the Queensland Government and City of Moreton Bay to support local arts and culture in regional Queensland.
Rising Crises (2024)
Moreton Bay based multimedia artist Lauren Edmonds creates work as social commentary encouraging conversation and contemplation regarding everyday experience. Their new work, Rising Crises (2024), is born from a larger hand-drawn animated project titled Dark Forebodings (2023-24). Rising Crises (2024) is a 2D graphically illustrated animation depicting slow-moving panels of blue, an empty bottle, a TV, a burning match and a band-aid. Together these elements are composed into an evolving scene that alludes to a pervasive sense of unease, one, the artist suggests, is a reflection of living in this, the era of compound crisis. The blue becomes rising water – the rising strain of everyday pressures related to flooding, climate crisis and cost of living. The work is a playful, pastel-coloured comic style image inviting viewers to find shared experiences and mutual understanding in the face of the challenges of the everyday.
