ABOUT
Bryony Shearmur is a UK-based fine art and interdisciplinary artist working across photography, textiles, fiber art, and conceptual projects.
Rooted in observation, empathy and personal narrative, her work explores vulnerability, imperfection and emotional presence, creating spaces where viewers are invited to slow down and connect.
Her practice resists easy categorisation. Moving fluidly between image-making, material processes and narrative structures, Bryony’s work celebrates both presence and fragility, reflecting a deep attentiveness to the world around her. At its core is a commitment to simplicity and emotional truth — a belief that art can hold complexity while remaining intimate and human. Whether working with text, cloth or image, she seeks to capture not only what something looks like, but what it feels like.
After many years working within the fast-paced commercial and cultural environment of Los Angeles, Bryony’s practice shifted away from image-led production toward slower, research-driven and reflective modes of making. This transition created space for writing, fragmented narrative, archival thinking and experimental formats to become central to her process. Rather than producing singular works, she increasingly builds bodies of work that function as open-ended enquiries, inviting viewers to sit with ambiguity, absence and quiet observation.
This emphasis on vulnerability operates as both method and critique. In a culture that often prioritises perfection, performance and curated identity, her work offers a counterpoint — embracing fragility, contingency and the poetry of imperfection as sites of meaning and connection.
Now based in Worthing, Bryony draws inspiration from the town’s evolving creative ecology and its relationship to landscape, community and regeneration. The contrast between global cultural centres and regional creative environments continues to inform her interest in how place, access and scale shape artistic identity and production. Through installation, text-based work and hybrid forms, she creates spaces for reflection that gently challenge dominant narratives of productivity, success and visibility.
Alongside her independent practice, Bryony is currently completing a BA (Hons) Fine Art degree, where she continues to develop interdisciplinary, research-led approaches that foreground process, writing and conceptual enquiry.
