Keith Deverell

Artist

Keith Deverell (b.1976) is an Australian/UK artist and designer whose work spans video art, sound/image installation and performance. Positioning his work as an immersive conversation that draws upon the duality of poetics and politics, Deverell creates collaborative community-based projects with Greyspace and collaborates with Corey Sands in the sound/image/performance group SONE. With McCauley he has curated programs of experimental film and video performance for the Melbourne International Film Festival, and in 2009 was awarded a City of Melbourne Laneways Commission, titled Rear Window. This was a series of video portraits of Chinese Workers taking breaks from their work in and around China Town. These slow motion poetic and gestural images were rear projected through old windows on to the streets of Melbourne, projecting an image of the city back on itself. During the summer of 2009-2010, Keith created a street-based video work using QR Codes during the Copenhagen Climate conference and other cities in Europe and Japan. In 2010 he collaborated on The Hawker's Song with McCauley and Cambodian artists Srey Bandol and Meas Sokhorn.This project was commissioned by the Melbourne International Arts Festival, Visual Arts Program 2010. In 2008 he completed a Master of Design from RMIT. He lives and works in Melbourne.