Evie Kelly

Evie Kelly is a photographer and visual media artist working in Naarm/ Melbourne. She predominantly shoots on 35mm film, with a passion for experimenting with movement, light and colour. She loves to shoot on film because it's unpredictability and to be more intentional in her practice.

Her Capstone project is titled 'Sense'. It explores the essence of feeling an abnormal and transcendental presence. Fleeting scenes of strange figures and enigmatic movement are interwoven with eerie landscapes to create a body of work that depicts the intangibility of the moment. She utilises multiple techniques to build the atmosphere in her work, including double exposures to create laying, slow shutter speeds to emphasise movement and light painting to highlight strange figures. Her work is inspired by her upbringing in a 'haunted' home. Since her childhood, she has often chased this peculiar feeling. Rather than depicting the sensation as being scary or uncanny, she hopes viewers will feel curious while also at ease.

As a soon to be graduate of Film and Television (Honours) with a minor in Photomedia, she enjoys working with multimedia and videography. She intends to continue to work with a range of media in her practice. She works on the land of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung and Bunurong Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nations.

Presence

Feeling a presence can be more than just a sighting, but rather an indescribable sense. It’s not always visible, but a feeling that is beyond any one of the five senses.

A Certain Distance

This image is taken on a 20+ years expired slide reversal film. The texture of the image personifies the subtlety of feeling another's presence.

The Unknown Territory

The atmosphere of nature can be enough to capture how it feels to know that there is something beyond human. Something that cannot be described.

Guidance

Through the combination of light, colour and movement, presence is formed.

Familiarity

Often, there is a familiarity in sensing another being. Someone or something we once knew. Perhaps, a visitor we have already met.

Acknowledgement of Country

The School of Design and Architecture respectfully acknowledges the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and knowledge-keepers of the lands, waters and sky that surround us, where we work, learn, create, communicate and make place. We recognise that sovereignty has never been ceded and this always was and will always be Wurundjeri Country. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who continue to make a better world through design.

We extend our acknowledgement to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, students, alumni, real-life clients, and knowledge keepers, who have contributed to our own education diversity and growth. We will continue to ensure that staff and students respectfully honour ancestral connection to Country and Place in everything that they do.

We are dedicated to the notion of design to make a better world and we acknowledge that making tools, shaping place, sharing stories, making meaning, wayfinding and collaborating have long been and continue to be both central and integral to First Peoples' cultures. We recognize that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ cultural contributions have continued relevance to design practice and commit to: reconciling ancestries of design and contemporary practice as well as pursuing culturally and professionally appropriate ways to engage with a diverse population of colleagues, industries and clients. In a time of treaty-making and voice we understand that there are overlaps between caring for Country and the sustainable production of goods, services, experiences, products and buildings.

Guided by the principles of respect, reconciliation, and reciprocity we undertake to indigenising and decolonising design practice by dismantling colonial structures and challenging biases that have marginalised Indigenous voices and design.

As students of SoDA you will be given opportunities to both engage with and educate yourself in Indigenous creative practices and cultural protocols through a lens of inclusivity, diversity, respect, mutual understanding, inter-cultural dialogue in all aspects of design practice. Indigenous people have been telling stories, making tools, and connecting to Country through visual media, placemaking and place marking for more than 60,000 years and these practices are part of an ongoing, evolving and live tradition.