- Artist's medium: Design - Mixed Media - Sculpture
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- Artist location: Pappinbarra NSW
Bryony Anderson is a designer, inventor, maker, and exhibiting artist whose work ranges from intricate illustrations to life sized dinosaur puppets, pedal powered boats and giant inflatable gardens.
She has been working with puppetry, visual theatre and circus companies in and out of Australia since 1997. Her design and construction work has featured in museums in Melbourne, Auckland and Los Angeles, and in projects with Erth (The Nargun and the Stars, The Garden, Gondwana) Theatre of Image (Lulie the Iceberg, Stella and the Moonman), Polyglot, My Darling Patricia (Africa, The Night Garden, Politely Savage), Puppetvision, Born in a Taxi (Boat of Faith, Whale’s Tale) and Fleur Noble. Circus work has included making and designing with Riggerous, Circus Monoxide and The Flying Fruit Fly Circus. She has also conducted puppetmaking workshops in regional communities including Bowraville, Horsham and the Central Desert.
As a scholarship student at the University of Wollongong in 1995, she was accepted as Trainee Puppetmaker at Skyworks Studio and later returned to complete her Bachelor of Creative Arts degree. Her sporadic career as a fine artist includes three solo exhibitions, the last two at the Wollongong City Gallery in NSW (Pets and Livestock, 1997; Scape-o-matic II, 2004; Sick People, 2008).
