Bryony Anderson
Designer-Maker for Performance and Participation, Mentor, Resource Steward
Country: Australia
Cohort: CCL Australia 2023
"I've gained most traction as a climate agitator when I take people along for the ride, using imagination and delight to inspire and motivate. The deeper you go the more you realise how much has to change for the crises of climate change and biodiversity loss to be wound back - they're entangled with social justice, governance, economics, our fractured connection to land, the children we're raising... so the need for climate leadership is everywhere."
About
Bryony Anderson is a first-generation Australian designer, maker, and creative director with a lifelong focus on resource stewardship. She runs an independent practice as Axlebone and works closely with Terrapin Puppet Theatre on their transition to sustainable practice, and to creating work that answers need in the island community of Tasmania. She has been working in puppetry and performance since 1997 with many Australian companies, touring nationally and internationally, with award-winning work appearing in galleries, festivals, theatres, museums, schools and street corners. Her deepening practice in community engagement has been shaped by collaborative projects in rural, desert, coastal and urban communities. Bryony continues to mentor emerging artists and to seek new avenues for applying creativity and imagination to wicked problems.
Project Highlights
Heap
Heap is a roving outdoor performance currently touring in Tasmania and interstate. A giant compost heap rises up and transforms into a strange creature with a sprouty potato head, while the gardener tries to manage the situation. It often ends with dancing. This work was designed with children at a local school to celebrate the marvel of new life growing from decay – compost!
Frugal Forest
Frugal Forest was a participatory project spanning 400 kilometres of coastline and including more than 1170 people over three years. In consultation with scientists we made an accurate temperate rainforest entirely from materials that were headed to landfill, with a surround-soundscape gleaned from junk.
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