NEWS, UPDATES & SHORT STORIES
‘A drop of hope’
An award-winning public art engagement strategy I designed to animate the new vaccine centre at The Francis Crick Institute.
Life Lines
In the midst of enforced isolation and grief... I found that drawing grounded me, generating that which I needed more than anything else at that time: connection.
Fusion Arts Lab
Based at Fusion Arts, this residency provided space to reflect on my practice, focusing on the question “what can make my practice sustainable?”
Solstice wild drawing
Drawing our attention to the internal and external negative spaces around positive shapes doesn’t come naturally, it takes a few tries to ‘see’ the empty shapes…
African Botanicals
A new mural in Cheltenham honouring Black Lives Matter protests beautifully and permanently.
Roots Zines
In the midst of our first nationwide lockdown in 2020, I created a small collection of limited edition artist colouring zines, each one filled with hand-drawn illustrations of plants.
Jackson’s Art interview
“Through depicting complex plant structures and patterns in exotic, multi-layered, transparent colour, ...(Bryony) creates pictorial idylls that invite us to revel in their soothing qualities.”
Adventure Uncovered interview
“How can we unlock that ancient wisdom, that ancient reverence for and ritual with the natural environment within ourselves?”
Disrupt Space interview
“From the Amazon rainforest to Hackney Downs, and across a whole range of disciplines, talents, practice... and then flip mode, we can be talking about dinosaurs, and ghosts!”
Wellcome Article: Louis Wain
“Wain’s vibrant use of pattern is sublime; was it a means of exploring a lifelong fascination with electrical currents or could his more elaborate patterning have been influenced by his textile-designer mother? Or might he, as a patient on a hospital ward, simply have found the act of painting and drawing patterns soothing or meditative?”
Painting in Tobago
Painting residency in Corbin’s Wildlife Sanctuary on the Caribbean island of Tobago.
Mayor of london award
On International Women’s Day this year, I was delighted to be part of a group of women recognised by the Mayor of London as ‘Hidden Credits’ - women who are making great contributions across the city as part of London’s #behindeverygreatcity campaign.
Zero Emissions Mural
A commission by Islington Council’s Zero Emissions Network to create a mural for a new Clean Air Walk in Archway, part of the Mayor of London’s clean air strategy to guide pedestrians along less-polluted routes across the city.
Deconstructing Patterns
Curating the Crick’s first art/science exhibition, which delves into a myriad of intriguing cellular and molecular forms through three artist commissions, developed in close collaboration with Crick researchers.
A garden of ones own
In 2018 I created a mural for St Mungo's, a charity working to support people recover from homelessness.