Biography

Bianka Kennedy is a multidisciplinary artist with a diverse practice spanning stage, screen, and gallery settings. So far in 2025 she has held roles as Festival Designer of DreamBig 2025, one of the largest children’s festivals in the Southern hemisphere, Design Lead for Adelaide Festival 2025 project War of The Worlds, Designer for Kinetik Collectives work presented at Brand X in Sydney, presented an exhibition at Adelaide Festival Centre’s Children's Artspace as well as contributing to feature films, theatre works and delivering tertiary teaching.

Additionally she has held roles such as Head of Prop Making for the multi-award-winning and internationally syndicated children’s TV series Beep and Mort, Experience Designer and Miniature Artist for the touring teens work Guthrak, Designer and Fabricator for SA Water’s Kauwi Water Education Centre and Production Coordination for Nicki Minaj’s Australian and New Zealand stage sets for FOMO Festival. She has worked as a Prop Maker for Warners Brothers film Mortal Kombat, and BBC Studios + HVK World’s Bluey’s Big World and has contributed to awards winning works of both Patch Theatre and Windmill Theatre Company.

Her design for State Theatre Company of South Australia’s 2019 sold-out season of Animal Farm was a national finalist in the Australian Production Guild’s awards for emerging designer for live performance. Her debut solo exhibition Sugar won an Adelaide Fringe 2021 visual arts award and was an industry example of integrating accessibility into the design, fabrication and exhibition of an art experience. Her accessible theatre designs have also been recognised with a 2022 Ruby Award. Permanent public artworks can be found in Adelaide and in the Kangaroo Island Sculpture Trail.

Keen to encourage others into the industry, Bianka has held many mentor roles and has delivered design presentations across private and public secondary schools and tertiary institutions. Additionally she holds a TAE certificate and lectures in the Creative Industries division of Adelaide College of the Arts.

Headshot photograph credit: Fable & Fig.