Tape, texture and possibility: Museum of Brisbane’s new Artist in Residence is drawing outside the lines
Remember being a kid, when your parents would get angry with you for using a Faber-Castell texter to draw all over the walls? Or maybe you turned yourself into a walking art piece with glue and glitter? Museum of Brisbane’s new Artist in Residence, Briony Barr, is encouraging visitors to indulge in that creative impulse once more in her latest installation, Tape It!
Briony Barr is transforming the Creative Space at Museum of Brisbane into a whirlwind of coloured tape – and you’re invited to play.
From Saturday December 12 2026 to Sunday April 11 2027, the free activity Tape It! – part of MoB’s Artist in Residence program – will encourage both creative little minds and the young at heart to sprawl tape across the floors and walls.
Using tape as a non-traditional drawing medium, participants of all ages can contribute to a series of collective artworks with no two contributions the same. As the installation grows, the tape will be carefully removed and reconfigured into sculptural objects. It’s a process Briony calls ‘undrawing’, which lets the artwork take shape and evolve as time passes.
Visitors can also meet the artist on select Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, as she responds to the method of ‘undrawing’ with a series of sketches on paper and a large-format drawing built up over time using tape.
Alongside the installation, the artist is hosting summer school holiday workshops that explore new creative ideas.
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Go wild at drop-in activities like The Little Collab, an evolving collaborative drawing on a transparent canvas across the museum’s windows, or join one of two teams for The Pattern, where you’ll use different colours of tape to create a shared drawing with one rule: the other team’s lines don’t overlap.
For teens, the ticketed MoB Teens: Tape Lab session flips the easel, with a short artist talk, an introduction to ‘undrawing’, a guided tour of Tape It!, hands-on making and an artwork to take home.
“Tape It! is an invitation to let go of the idea that art needs to be made by an artist alone. It gives audiences the freedom to experiment, make their mark and see how their contribution becomes part of a much bigger creative story,” says Museum of Brisbane CEO and director Zoe Graham.
The creative installation arrives as Museum of Brisbane celebrates a decade of its Artist in Residence program. Find out more information on the museum’s exhibition In Residence: A Decade of Creative Practice here.
This article was written in partnership with our friends at Museum of Brisbane.
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