[1] Kemp began playing in Brisbane Grade Cricket in 5th Grade when he was fourteen for Easts-Redlands District Cricket Club, who he eventually captained, and he played for Queensland junior sides from Under-15's to Under-19's.
[7] Kemp was named a Brisbane Heat supplementary player for the 2012/13 Big Bash League,[8] but he was delisted by Queensland prior to the 2012/13 season.
[11] In May 2013 he received a full Queensland State contract,[12] and in August 2013 he was named a supplementary player for the Brisbane Heat in the Champion's League Trophy.
[13] He was selected in one game for the Heat during the Champion's League,[14] however the match was abandoned without a ball being bowled due to rain.
[17] In 2017 Kemp spent three months as a Cricket New South Wales ACA intern as a Pathway Coach and was then appointed as a youth pathway coach responsible for assisting elite young players in Metropolitan North East for Cricket New South Wales.