Bryony Dunne is an Irish visual artist and filmmaker living and working between Wicklow (Ireland) and Athens. Building on her background in documentary photography and visual anthropology, she explores the relations between humanity and nature, the arbitrariness of cultural representation, and the fantasies of human control. She has exhibited her work at venues such as BAHAR – Istanbul’s offsite project of Sharjah Biennial 13, The Mosaic Rooms (London), The Gypsum and Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), the Irish Film Institute (Dublin) and DEPO (Istanbul), and has participated with her films at a number of International film and video festivals such as Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece), Aesthetica (UK) and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. A recent film project, Above the Law, was supported by Screen Ireland and premiered at Cork International Film Festival. In 2020 she was a recipient of a Film Project Award from the Arts Council of Ireland to work on her first feature film entitled Pembe about the death of the last northern white male rhinoceros. In 2021 she was selected to participate at the Jan Van Eyck academy in the Netherlands.
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2020 Film Project Award, Arts Council Ireland
2019 Visual Artist Bursary Award, Irish Arts Council
2019 Culture Ireland Award for exhibition My Dear Friends at DEPO, Istanbul
2018 Arab Fund For Arts and Culture – Visual Arts Award for production of exhibition My Dear Friends
2018 National Geographic Storytelling Award
2018 Screen Ireland, Real Shorts Production Award for Above the Law
2018 Irish Nomination Euroconnection for Above the Law
2018 Nominee for FOAM Paul Huf Award
2017 Travel and Training Award, Irish Arts Council
2017 Best Director, Zawya Short Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt
2016 Best Documentary Short, Iranian Green Film Festival, Iran for The Orchard Keepers
2016 Mophradat Artist Award
2016 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council Ireland
2015 First Prize Award, Ethnofilm International Film Festival, Rovinj, Croatia for The Orchard Keepers
2014 Second Prize, “Energy of the Truth,” Saratov International Documentary Festival, Russia for The Orchard Keepers
2013 World View Media Fund Award
SCREENINGS AND ARTIST TALKS
2020 Online Screening of Killing the Messengers, AEMI, Dublin, Ireland
2020 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
2020 Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival, Dublin
2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece
2020 Dublin International Film Festival, Ireland
2020 Anthropocene Parallax Campus, Culturgest, Lisbon
2019 Munich Film Academy, Germany
2019 Cork International Film Festival. Ireland
2019 Wild Orchards Will Overgrow Us, Hospitalfield, Scotland.
2019 A School of Images, workshop by James Bridle, Onassis Foundation, Athens
2019 Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece
2018 Biennale of Western Balkans, Ioannina, Northern Greece
2018 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
2018 Labocine, April edition ‘Letters From The Field
2018 Now and After, International Video Art Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017 Shnit International Short Film Festival
2017 Radio Telefis Eireann, RTE
2017 The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK
2017 Fastnet International Film Festival, Ireland
2017 American University in Cairo, Egypt
2017 Clermont – Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
2017 A-DASH, Athens, Greece
2017 Zawya Short Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt
2017 Visions du Reel, media library screening, Nyon, Switzerland
2016 Irish Film Institute, Dublin
2017 Galway International Film Festival, Ireland
2016 Moldox Documentary Film Festival, Moldova
2016 Riga World Film Festival, Kino Bize, Latvia
2016 Iranian Green Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
2015 Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
2015 Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
2015 Olhares do Mediterrâneo, Lisbon
2015 Trento Film Festival, Italy
2015 Ethnofilm Festival, Croatia
2015 Socially Relevant Film Festival, New York
2015 Dingle International Film Festival, Ireland
2015 Days of Ethnographic Film, Slovenia
2015 Goldsmiths University, Dep Visual Anthropology, London, UK
2015 P 21 Gallery, London, UK
2015 Antropofest, Prague, Czech Republic
2015 The Frontline Club, London, UK
2014 Bilbao Mountain Film Festival, Spain
2014 Festival International du film de Montagne, France
2014 Sinai Conference, Netherlands Institute in Cairo, Egypt
2014 Nour Festival of the Arts, Leighton House Museum, London, UK
2014 Banff Mountain International Film Festival, Canada
2014 Guth Gafa International Film Festival, Ireland
2014 Saratov International Film Festival, Russia
2014 The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK
2014 Ismailia International Film Festival, Ismailia, Egypt
2013 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
SOLO/ DUO EXHIBITION
2019 My Dear Friends, DEPO, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 Amriya, Medrar Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt
2016 They Usually Lie Around a Grotto, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
GROUP
2021 (upcoming) Urgencies, Centre for Contemporary Art Derry-Londonderry
2020 Etat d’Urgence d’Instatnts Poetiques (EUIP), National Botanical Garden and LeCube, Rabat, Morocco
2020 Photo London Digital, online edition
2020 The Loss and the Rest, Art Athina, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
2019 Art Barter, Athens
2019 Through Other Eyes, NeMe, Limmasol, Cyprus
2018 6th Athens Biennale –ANTI (Peng Collective), Athens, Greece.
2018 The Truth About Fiction, The Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
2017 Athens Photography Photo book Exhibition Festival, Benaki Museum, Greece
2017 Bahar, Sharjah Art Biennial 13 Tamawuj, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Trento Photography Festival, Italy
2012 Living with World heritage in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
RESIDENCY
2021 School of Infinite Rehearsals, facilitator James Bridle, Onassis Air, Athens
2017 A-Dash, Contemporary Arts Centre, Athens
2016 Hangar Art and Research Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 The Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
EDUCATION
2010 MA, UNESCO World Heritage Studies and Visual Anthropology, University College Dublin, Ireland
2012 NCFE, Documentary Photography, Westminster College, London, UK
2003 HND, Stage and Interior Design, Bray Art and Design College, Wicklow, Ireland
TEACHING
2013 – 2016 Tutor of Photography, German University in Cairo, Egypt
Member of Visual Artists Ireland.