With a compulsion towards unflinching honesty, Bryony Mason is driven by a need to reveal and confront her experiences of trauma and its ricochet on her life today. Using a variety of mediums, but predominantly utilising text and personal symbolism, Bryony works in collage and textiles to discuss difficult subjects such as being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse; a subject usually reserved for whispers rather than the art gallery.

BA Fine Art work by Bryony Mason of a textile banner reading ‘not my shame to hold’, with Bryony, a large white woman stood in front smiling.

Bryony’s most prolific work feels like a diary entry, often depicting her thoughts and worries in delicate collage cut from newspaper headlines. This practice has given Bryony the voice she never thought she’d have; and the platform she didn’t feel worthy of until her time at Norwich University of The Arts.

BA Fine Art work by Bryony Mason of a textile banner of hands dropping the phrase ‘it is not my shame to hold’.
BA Fine Art work by Bryony Mason of a two sided textile banner reading ‘could have been worse’ and ‘should have been better’.
BA Fine Art work by Bryony Mason of a small embroidery of three sets of hands with healing wounds in metallic threads on black aida.
BA Fine Art work by Bryony Mason of an image of an overgrown urban environment with the phrase ‘what modern horrors will become tomorrow’s folklore?’ on top.