I’m Bianka and I like to make interesting things.

Bianka Kennedy portrait image, facing side-on and smiling. She wears glasses and sparkling square hanging earrings

I work as a designer, props maker and fabricator across film, theatre, festivals, and exhibitions.

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Headshot photograph credit: Fable & Fig.

Right now I’m focused on creating work for children and young adults. I am the Head of Props Making for the ABC + Windmill Pictures show Beep and Mort.  The second season is out now on ABC & iView!

Guthrak

A long gestation project, Guthrak, recently came to life as a 4.5m miniature world, a place for storytelling with intricate carvings and the worlds of orcs, humans, elves and gods. This project will go on tour across regional South Australia soon.

Update: See Guthrak explained here

Watch this space!

I am really looking forward to digging into the worlds and interests of young people to design a festival also. It’s going to be huge and a real delight to inspire and entertain our precious young folk.

I also make furniture and objects. My current furniture project is called hang, and is an artful set of flat-pack  stools that hang on your wall. I have a million personal projects in sketchbooks and in different phases of realisation. One is called The Spaces in Between and starts with a gazillion images I've taken of cracks, and particularly moss growing in the cracks of concrete or bitumen. It’s finding beauty in the flaws, but also about taking ground and thriving. 

I am always keen to consider how accessibility can be built into design and I am part of a conceptual project called O-Ki that really interrogates this idea.