Garden Sigh

Queerness and the London plane tree

A new installation work reimagining the urban London plane tree and public gardens as ciphers for queerness and disequilibrium. A play between objects in recline and repose and an environment in suspension.

Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants.

Briony Galligan is an artist who makes environments—through drawing, installation and sculpture—that are slippery and suspended, more atmosphere than coherent logic. Briony positions objects as conduits, working with them as tools and appendages to move through states of ‘disequilibrium’. She also works responding to various queer representations and archives and is curious about the immateriality and invisibility of queer desire in her own work and in collaboration.