Presentation Night Artwork - Briony Barr
During our Presentation Night we were lucky to have Briony Barr work on a live, process based artwork. I am pleased to be able to unveil the work to the community.
Briony Barr is a visual-conceptual artist who uses process-based drawing (individual, collaborative, live, expanded) to explore ideas around structure, emergence and the effect of different boundaries and generative limits. She regularly collaborates with scientists, writers, musicians, dancers and groups of people on projects ranging from large-scale, drawing installations, to live-art and performance, to workshops, picture books and graphic novels.
Briony earned a BA (English) from the University of Queensland, a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, an MFA from the Victorian College of Arts and is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Melbourne. She is co-founder of art-science collective Scale Free Network. Briony has presented work nationally and internationally, including at Scienceworks, State Library of Qld, RMIT Gallery, ArtPlay, Make It Up Club, Counihan Gallery, George Paton Gallery, Ipswich Art Gallery, Miscellania and TW Fine Art in Australia, Pierogi 2000, Flux Factory and the Santa Fe Institute in USA and the National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Korea.
Briony has also generously provided a video explaining her process of painting on the night and a decoding of the symbols used in the work.
We are excited to have this work displayed in our LRC as a reminder of our fantastic Presentation Night and a representation of our inspiring school community!
Samuel Crockett | Assistant Principal