The Never Ending Line: Kellie O'Dempsey

Kellie O’Dempsey encourages us to play and explore with line, expressing our feelings and responding to what’s going on around us. Drawing is experimental, collaborative, a performance, and an adventure with no set destination in mind.

Have you ever wanted to draw but didn’t know how or where to start? Do you worry about messing up a beautiful blank page?

Kellie O’Dempsey calls this problem with getting started ‘the masterpiece complex’ and she wants us all to smash it. Kellie encourages us to play and explore with line, expressing our feelings and responding to what’s going on around us. In her installation The never-ending line, drawing is experimental, collaborative, a form of exploration, a performance, and an adventure with no set destination in mind.

In this Education Resource there are three drawing provocations to engage with: Drawing + exploring, Point of view and Investigating movement. Click through via the menu below to see where the journey takes you!

Curriculum Connections

The Arts— Drama, Dance, Music and Media Arts. Critical and Creative Thinking
Personal and Social Capability

Themes

Art materials and processes, composition, experimentation, multidisciplanary arts, multidisciplinary thinking, collaboration

Level Details

Talking points to facilitate discussion and encourage observation, interpretation and imagination.