Beastliness
Deborah Kelly
A woman is transformed into a fox, a naked woman with six breasts and a wolf-like person perform pirouettes, jump right across the screen to the rhythm of the music. Deborah Kelly’s animation film Beastliness is built on a series of analogue paper collages. The artist has been working on this project for three years, and in it she again explores the poetry and metaphors of reproductive technologies, as well as expressing in dance form the intermixture and the idealisation of femininity.
Deborah Kelly
Artist Deborah Kelly lives and works in Sydney and presents her works on the international stage – including at the Biennales in Singapore and Venice. She is a founder member of the artists’ group boat-people.org, which since 2001 has been involved in cross-media PR. Kelly has won numerous awards for her works, in 2009 for example the Fisher’s Ghost Award and the Screengrab International New Media Arts Award. In 2012 Artwork will publish a monograph on her works.