Briony Galligan is an emerging visual artist from an Anglo/Irish background living and working on Wurundjeri and Boon Wurrung land. Working with textiles, sculpture and video, Briony amplifies points where particular personal, social and art histories connect. The Möbius strip—a loop of two continuously intertwined surfaces without orientation, inside or outside—is described by Briony as a model for her practice, forming a connection between internal sensory experiences and external social forms. Briony works with performance, theatrical and architectural structures such as backdrops and portable screens, ceramics, sculpture and costume to question the limits of what can be controlled in a ‘logical’ social order. Briony completed MFA, Monash University in 2019. Recent exhibitions include ‘Queer Economies’ Bus Projects (2019) ‘We are here’, State Library of Victoria/ Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives (2018) ‘Haul Body’ Westspace (2017) ‘Jogja Calling’, 4A Centre for Asian Art, Sydney; ‘She imagines a City’ Heide Museum, Melbourne (2016) ‘No, I couldn’t agree with you more’, (with Rosie Isaac) TCB, ‘Body language does not have a grammer’ (with Tace Kelly and Rosina Prestia) The Substation, ‘Movement behind the backdrop’ (with Rafaella McDonald) The Kaleidoscopic Turn, NGV (2015).
