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Established in Melbourne, Australia in 2006, Barking Spider Visual Theatre is a Melbourne-based puppetry and visual theatre company that develops and presents work to diverse audiences across ages and cultures, in Australia and internationally. The company was founded by students from the Victorian College of the Arts now defunct puppetry course.

Illusion and transformation as the company's guiding aesthetic, Barking Spider Visual Theatre aims to generate beautiful and truthful work that challenges habits of perspective and which allows audiences to feel, to delight, to dream and to be inspired. Barking Spider Visual Theatre artists, which have numbered over 50 across all the company's projects over the last 6 years, are dedicated to excellence in the form and practice of theatre, with a collaborative creative process.

The company has a strong history in development, creation and production of original works, generating in excess of twenty-thee works over six years. The company creates works for theatre, for and with children, with communities, site-specific works, roving works (such as The Biscuit Readings, and Beardo - A Tableaux Vivant), art, puppetry and theatre-arts workshops, and shows, events and workshops for Museums. Barking Sider Visual Theatre works often with Heide Museum in Heidleberg Melbourne.

Barking Spider Visual Theatre is a not-for-profit incorporated association with both DGR and TCC status for tax purposes.

Supporters, Awards & Sponsors Arts Victoria Regional Arts Victoria City of Melbourne Sidney Myer Foundation Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade Australia Council Handspan Visual Theatre Travelling Scholarship R.E. Ross Playwright's script Development Award Auspicious Arts Incubator Friends of The VCA Theatre Works VISY Specialties