I'm a Phoenix Bitch

Bryony Kimmings creates multi-platform art works which aim to provoke change. Through script and photographs this book documents the show I'm a Phoenix Bitch Kimmings' personal response to the trauma of having post-natal breakdown.<br/><br/>In 2016 Bryony nearly drowned. Postnatal breakdowns an imploding relationship and an extremely sick child left her sitting beneath the waves hoping she could slowly turn to shell.<br/><br/>Two years later she was able to deal with life again but wears the scars of that year like a dark and heavy cloak. Who do we become after trauma? How do we turn pain into power? How do we fly instead of drown?<br/><br/>Bryony Kimmings returned to performance in 2018 with her first solo show in nearly a decade. A mythical legend performed straight from a heart still pulsing with pain. Combining personal stories with epic film soundscapes and ethereal music Bryony creates a powerful dark and joyful work about motherhood heartbreak and finding inner strength.<br/><br/>Bryony Kimmings' solo performance is acutely painful in places but it's actually an easy sell: this is an extraordinary piece of theatre. I'm a Phoenix Bitch shows Kimmings is an artist of exceptional integrity compassion imagination and guts. (The Guardian)<br/><br/>We will need new myths to survive the end of existence as we know it; for Bryony it is that of the invincible and fearless woman; a tale Bryony wishes she had known from birth.