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 designer, maker, and creative director with a lifelong focus on resource stewardship. As Lead Maker and Head of Workshop at Terrapin Puppet Theatre for the past three years, she established a thriving company workshop based on sustainable principles, training emerging makers in the dark arts of puppetmaking.
Since 1997 Bryony’s work has toured nationally and internationally with many Australian companies and appeared in galleries, festivals, theatres and museums. Working for many years in an off-grid shed in the mountains of NSW, she developed techniques for working with salvaged and low-impact materials and including local community in creative projects. From a design foundation, Bryony’s current focus is on envisioning possible futures with young people, and developing readiness for uncertain times.
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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