DRAW Space is thrilled to present Briony Barr + Richard Briggs – CODE DUELLO: DRAWING / UNDRAWING.
Opening 6-8pm Thursday 16 October, CODE DUELLO: DRAWING / UNDRAWING presents an immersive, evolving installation that will traverse all interior surfaces of the gallery.
Artists Briony Barr and Richard Briggs invite the DRAW Space community to contribute to the simultaneous growth and deconstruction of two tape-based drawings. The work will be created using a mark-making rule-system communicated through custom playing cards. The drawings will be initially created by Briony and Richard, then continued at the opening event and throughout the four-week exhibition period.
The title CODE DUELLO references historic rules for fair duelling and plays with the idea that the two drawings are vying with each other.
Join the artists and DRAW Space community to celebrate and create. Exhibition runs until 5pm Sunday 9 November.
CALL OUT FOR DRAWING AGENTS
Briony and Richard are seeking volunteer agents to contribute to this drawing installation by adding tape marks in the DRAW space gallery. In this session we will collectively grow the two artworks before the exhibition opening. Tape is provided and no prior experience is required.
WHEN: anytime between 11am-5pm Wednesday 15 October 2025
EMAIL: info@drawspace.org to register your interest
Richard Briggs image: Alia Ardon @aliaardon
Briony Barr image: Yuchen Liu @bctmt
About the artists
Briony Barr
Briony Barr is a visual artist who uses process-based drawing (individual, collaborative, live, expanded) to explores ideas around structure, emergence and the effect of different boundaries and generative limits.
Based in Brisbane, she regularly collaborates with scientists, writers, musicians, dancers and groups of people on projects ranging from large-scale, participatory-drawings, to live-art and performance, to workshops, picture books and graphic novels.
Briony’s work has been presented in schools, libraries, festivals, conferences, galleries, music venues, museums and science institutions in Australia and internationally, including at the World Science Festival Brisbane, Chau Chak Wing Museum, State Library of Queensland, State Library of Victoria, Scienceworks Melbourne, RMIT Gallery, ArtPlay, Make It Up Club, Counihan Gallery, George Paton Gallery, Ipswich Art Gallery, Miscellania and TW Fine Art in Australia, Pierogi 2000, Flux Factory and the Santa Fe Institute in USA and the National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art in Korea.
Richard Briggs
Richard Briggs is an artist who loves drawing.
He has a particular interest in forming an understanding about what makes a place unique, and how this can translate into an artwork. Richard uses drawing to explore our surroundings, both urban and natural, bringing the viewer into a world of intrigue, curiosity, and calm. His line based artworks are experiential and carry a spatial quality derived from simplification of our often complex surroundings. Importantly, they also aim to tell stories about a particular place, it’s people and are community and site specific.
Richard has experience of working on public art projects with NSW based Councils such as the City of Sydney, the Inner West Council, and the Government of Victoria on a large-scale public artwork for the Level Crossing Removal Project in Melbourne. Richard has also recently collaborated with NSW Health Infrastructure to produce numerous wall drawings at the Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick.
He also has a background in architecture and is an experienced teacher and workshop facilitator, leading drawing workshops both locally and internationally.
In every project community, stories of place and the landscape are celebrated.