Bryony McIntyre is a creative producer and photographer who brings an open heart and mind to practices of visionary organising, co-evolved connections and visual magic.
A founding co-director of Arika, a political arts organisation concerned with celebrating and supporting connections between artistic production and social change, she has produced 34 festivals over 18 years in Scotland, UK and New York including as part of the 2012 Whitney Biennial. In 2020 Arika were awarded a Turner Bursary for their innovative and significant contribution to new developments in British contemporary art.
She is a 2021 Clore Fellow and a Fellow of the International Society of the Performing Arts.
Bryony studied Film and Photography at Sheffield Hallam University, has had work published in magazines such as The Wire, Tank and Plan B and in books such as Vocations de l'ombre – Haino Keiji – Une autre voix/voie du rock(Les Presses du Reel) and Live Visuals: History, Theory, Practice (Routledge), on record releases such as Marginal Consort (PAN Records) and in exhibitions at The Showroom (Sheffield). She has an ongoing and evolving analogue photographic practice, currently working with the serendipity of in-camera double exposure techniques.