Bryony Benge-Abbott is a British-Trinidadian artist whose practice explores human interconnectedness with the natural world through the framework of embodied ecology.
She has both a studio painting and a public realm practice, the latter of which involves guided ‘wild drawing’ walks and public installations co-created with academics, artists and activists. Moving from film to sculpture to music, this practice blends mediums to illuminate nature-stories of kinship and reciprocity that are typically overlooked or under-told in the mainstream.
In the studio, Bryony works with an ecocentric and decolonial gaze to create paintings that explore the human body as a site of transformation; as an experience that is fluid, porous and intimately connected to all living systems.
In 2006 Bryony graduated from Bath Spa University with a BA Hons in Fine Art before undertaking an MA in Museology and Curatorial Fellowship at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Since then she has spent 16 years working as curator and artist on projects at institutions ranging from The Women’s Library to the Wellcome Collection. More recently she has collaborated with environmental practitioners at organisations from the British Ecological Society and Butterfly Conservation to the Grantham Institute – Climate and the Environment at Imperial College London. In 2023 Bryony joined the University of Liverpool as Research Artist on a 5-year environmental history project studying experiences of heat in the city funded by Wellcome.
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