Bryony Dunne is an Irish visual artist and filmmaker who operates at the intersection of documentary film, sculpture, photography, and the natural world. Building interconnected narratives that often incorporate fact-based fictions and speculative futures, her research-driven projects explore the power dynamics between humanity and nature as well as fantasies of human control.

Her work has been exhibited at the Mosaic Rooms (London), Gypsum and Townhouse galleries (Cairo), the Irish Film Institute (Dublin), and DEPO (Istanbul), among other venues. She has participated in a number of international film and video festivals, including the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival (Greece), Cork International Film Festival (Ireland), and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. She was a resident at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht during the 2021–2022 cycle. Her first feature film Surrender Your Horns (2022), will be presented at EVA International, Irelands Biennial in August.

RESIDENCY

2023 Askeaton Contemporary, Limerick, Ireland

2021/22 Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

2021 School of Infinite Rehearsals, facilitator James Bridle, Onassis Air, Athens

2017 A-Dash, Athens

2016 Hangar Artistic Research Centre, Lisbon

2015 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2022 Two month tailor-made research fellowship, Onassis Foundation, Athens Greece

2020 Film Project Award, Arts Council Ireland

2019 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland

2019 National Geographic Story Telling Award

2019 Culture Ireland Grant

2018 Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – Visual Arts Award

2018 Screen Ireland Real Shorts Award

2018 Irish Nomination Euroconnection

2018 Nominee FOAM Paul Huf Award

2017 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council Ireland

2017 Best Director, Zawya Short Film Festival, Cairo, Egypt                                                                               

2016 Best Documentary Short, Iranian Green Film Festival, Iran

2016 Mophradat Artist Award

2016 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council Ireland

2015 1st Prize, Ethnofilm International Film Festival, Rovinj, Croatia

2014 2nd Prize, Energy of the Truth, Saratov International Film Festival, Russia

2013 World View Media Fund Award             

                                                                  

SCREENING AND ARTISTS TALKS

2023 Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland

2023 Mermaid Theatre,  Co.Wicklow, Ireland

2023 Screening and Book Launch, Limestone Books, Maastricht, Netherlands

2023 Screening and Book Launch, Hyper Hypo, Athens

2023 Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, Greece

2023 Film Maudit, LA, USA

2023 St. Bridget’s Day Festival, Rio Cinema, London

2022 London Irish Film Festival, London

2022 Galway Film Festival, Ireland

2022 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, Australia

2022 Online screening at Seoda global online festival, Culture Ireland

2021 Online Screening as part of the exhibition To be consumed in totality, AEMI, Dublin, Ireland     

2020 Online Screening AEMI, Dublin, Ireland

2020 Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK

2020 Irish Film Institute Documentary Festival, Dublin

2020 Perverting the Power Vertical at the Grant Museum of Zoology, London (POSTPONED)

2020 EMST, Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Greece (POSTPONED)

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, Presentation at Hospitalfield, Scotland

2019 A School of Images, a workshop presentation with James Bridle, Onassis Foundation

2019 Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece

2018 Biennale of Western Balkans, Ioannina, Northern Greece

2018 Olhares do Mediterrâneo, Lisbon

2018 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

2018 Now and After, International Video Art Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2018 Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film and Video Festival, Malaysia

2018 Now & After International Video Art Festival

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 Visons du Reel, media library screening, Nyon, Switzerland

2017 Galway International Film Festival, Ireland

2016 Hangar, Centre for Artistic Investigation, Lisbon, Portugal

2016 Irish Film Institute, Dublin

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

2014 Medimed Euro-Mediterranean Documentary Market, Barcelona, Spain

2013 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

FILMOGRAPHY

2022 Surrender Your Horns / 61 min

2020 Killing the Messengers / 11 min

2019 Above the Law / 13 min

2017 Things Stay For a While / 10 min

2016 Bring them Back Alive / 7 min

2016 Gasper / 20 min

2014 The Orchard Keepers / 28 min

SOLO / DUO EXHIBITION

2023 The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings, Library Project, Dublin, Ireland

2022 Futuristic Diorama, Natural History Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands

2019 My Dear Friends, DEPO, Istanbul

2017 Amriya, Medrar Gallery for Contemporary Art, Cairo, Egypt

2016 They Usually Lie Around a Grotto, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

GROUP

2023 EVA Biennial, The Gleaners Society curated by Sebastian Cichocki, Limerick, Ireland

2023 Oasis of Wonder, Ruigoord, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023 Like a Sponge/ San Sfouggari, Vessel Space, Aegina Island, Greece

2023 Why Look at Animals, Crux Gallery, Athens, Greece

2022 The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings, New Irish Works Photo Ireland Festival

2021 Urgencies, CCA Derry – Londonderry, Centre for Contemporary Art

2021 Gardening, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens

2020 Etat d’Urgence d’Instatnts Poetiques, Botanical Garden, Rabat, Morocco and Le Cube

2020 Photo London Digital, online edition

2020 The Loss and the Rest, Art Athina, Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens

2019 Through Other Eyes, NeMe, Cyprus

2018 6th Athens Biennale –ANTI (Peng Collective), Athens, Greece.

2018 The Truth About Fiction, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

2017 Athens Photography Festival, Benaki Museum, Greece

2017 Bahar, Sharjah Art Biennial 13 Tamawuj off-site exhibition, Istanbul, Turkey

2015 Trento Photography Festival, Italy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2023 The Sky Only Welcomes Those with Wings

2022 The School of Infinite Rehersals Movement 1-IV, Onassis Foundation

2016 Seeds from the Zoo

2015 The Orchard Keepers, forward by Maria Golia

TEACHING                              

2013 – 2016 Tutor of Photography, German University in Cairo, Egypt

EDUCATION

2010 MA, UNESCO World Heritage Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland

2003 HND, Interior and Set Design, Bray Art and Design College, Ireland.