Bryony Kimmings

Bryony Kimmings (born 30 March 1981) is a live artist based in London. She is an associate artist of Soho Theatre, and, in 2016, was commissioned to write The Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer for Complicite Associates.

Bryony creates multi-platform art works to provoke change. Her work centres mostly around 'social experiments' which in the past have included the artist retracing an STI to its source, spending seven days in a controlled environment in a constant state of intoxication and becoming a pop star invented by a 9 year old.

As well as appearing at the Soho Theatre, Kimming's work has toured across the world including: Antifest (Finland), Culturgest (Portugal), Fusebox Festival (Texas), The Southbank Centre, Melbourne International Comedy Festival (Australia), and Lisinski Operahouse (Croatia).

Kimmings graduated with a degree in Modern Drama from Brunel University in 2003. In a 2011 interview she said of her time at Brunel: "It was Live Art and the history of performance artists that excited me the most", and so immediately afterwards she established the company 'Glass Eyed' with friends. 'Glass Eyed' created work for two years before being dissolved.

In 2006 she began Celebrityville a soap cabaret following the lives of forgotten celebrities living in a fictional town. A new episode was created every month between 2006 and 2008. Describing working on Celebrityville Kimmings said "this gave me a baptism of fire really, making such a large volume of work, learning about how to run a night, what to do if things broke half way through, making costumes, doing marketing - everything." When Celebrityville ended, Kimmings began to explore a solo live art career with autobiographical themes.

Known primarily for creating autobiographical work, Kimmings achieved notoriety with her 2010 piece Sex Idiot, where she revealed her sexual history after discovering she had contracted an STI. In her 2011 piece 7 Day Drunk Kimmings collaborated with a team of scientists to analyse the impact of alcohol on her creativity.

In an interview in March 2011, speaking of the drivers behind her work Kimmings said: "I guess in a way it is an artist's duty to say and explore the things that are untouchable, or hard to talk about."

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