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Bria McCarthy writes and creates work for theatre, literature, film and education,with a speciality in experimental shadow puppetry. She created the ‘Shadow House’, a recycled fabric textile installation and performance space seen at the Penrith Real Festival and the Art Gallery of NSW in 2024. Her work was commissioned for the major exhibition ‘Dhuluny: The War That Never Ended’ at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. In 2023 her debut solo show “Dragon Hearts” won the Sydney Fringe Award for Best Emerging Artist, and the show was selected to play in the Melbourne Fringe BlakLodge. She was the recipient of the 2022 ACE Indigenous Artist Residency, and her debut manuscript was shortlisted for the 2022 Text Prize. She is an autistic artist with Wiradjuri and Irish heritage. Her work is characterised by an emphasis on multispecies storytelling, neurodivergent imagination, and it is always a little magical.