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Shadow Puppet Workshops
I offer fun, hands-on shadow puppet workshops where kids can create their own animal and creature puppets and explore storytelling through light and shadow. Participants design imaginative characters and bring their stories to life, with creativity, collaboration, and play at the heart of every session. At the end of the workshop, we often put on…
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Interactive Shadow Puppet Books
What started from an experiment has become one of my favourite mediums for storytelling and puppetry. In 2024 I invented these shadow puppet books, which are hand made and interactive. They explore stories of ancient Australia from a fantastical and imaginative angle. Using a spiral binder and laser cutter, I have created these interactive books…
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‘Shadow House’
And The Stories Inside Now Taking Commissions ✨ Step into a world of enchantment at this unique performance space and textile art installation, where nostalgia meets creativity. Crafted by hand from recycled lace, curtains, and bedsheets, the Shadow House is a patchwork blanket fort taken to a new level. Enjoy the tent as a quiet…
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Dragon Dreams
Music by Lili Occhuito, Dan Bailen, and Adam Yoon. This performance took place at the 2024 Sunrise Festival and was improvised
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The Dreaming Holds Us (2024)
The Dreaming Holds Us, 2024 Shadow Puppetry on Screen Using shadow puppetry on overhead projection and multiplane stop-motion animation, this piece reflects on the Bathurst martial law as a cosmic Dreaming event. There are memories that live in the landscape, in the stories we tell, and in the living survivors. This piece explores glimpses into…
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Dragon Hearts
Winner of the 2023 Sydney Fringe Best Emerging Artist Award ‘Dragon Hearts’ is a experimental shadow puppet show for adults. Using an overhead projector and over 100 draconic puppets, Wiradjuri/Irish puppet artist Bria McCarthy creates a light show that tells the ancient mythologies of dragons across culture and time. Through dragon stories well-known and long…
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Murriyang: Seven Sisters Rising
This film honours and celebrates the Seven Sisters star cluster, also known as the Pleiades, Matariki, Suburu, and many other names over the globe. The return of the constellation after the winter solstice marks the beginning of the new year for many indigenous cultures of the pacific. As a Wiradjuri artist and storyteller, I am…
Bria McCarthy 