Artists Out Front - Claire Bridge presents talks with Art World Women

Artists Out Front, 10th March, Speaker Program 

In association with Here We See: Gallery There and the exhibition OUT FRONT -  Artists Out Front

Gather for a lively discussion to explore each artist's practice.
In addition, some of the topics we aim to cover:

- Breaking through and establishing a career on the International Stage
- Exhibiting at the Venice Biennale
- Collaboration and large scale projects
- Being a represented artist vs forging ahead independently
- Getting work out there: how these artist are responding to art market shifts and changes
- Art World Women and Gender Equality in the Arts

There will be opportunity for audience Q and A and a chance to mingle afterwards with a glass of wine or beverage  while you check out the exciting exhibition OUT FRONT.

Australian artist Penny Byrne's sculptural works are politically charged, highly engaging and often disarmingly humorous.

Rosalind Lemoh creates sculptural objects, assemblage, light and text-based works that range from miniature to full-body scaled.

Emmy Mavroidis sculpts by manipulating wax which is then cast in bronze, suggesting the ephemerality of movement. 

The works of artist Claire Bridge are often provocative and contemplative simultaneously. Bridge is a visual artist who employs a multidisciplinary approach to her practice, bringing these paradoxical elements into her painting, photography, immersive sensory video and sound installations and more recently into sculpture and ceramics.

Artists Out Front
Speaker Program
10th March

12 noon - 1:30 pm

Gallery There: SmithSt

424 Smith Street, Collingwood
 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artists-out-front-rosalind-lemoh-penny-byrne-emmy-mavroidis-tickets-43507751857?aff=OutFrontAWW

Image credits: 
Rosalind Lemoh, courtesy the artist
Penny Byrne, image credit: Penny Stephens, Insta: @bypennystephens
Emmy Mavroidis, courtesy the artist
Claire Bridge, courtesy the artist

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Art World Women

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OUT FRONT, 8th March - 8th April

Out Front  -  the exhibition  - Gallery There: SmithSt (see below for more info)
PLUS TWO special events hosted by yours truly and Art World Women.

Claire Bridge, Touch the Water, oil on panel, 2018, framed 32 x 27 cm

Melbourne gallery initiative Here We See – Gallery There presents Out Front, a pop-up group exhibition presenting diverse practices of Australian artists in celebration of International Women’s Week. The participating artists display a diversity in art practice that goes beyond the categorisation of gendered art, or ‘women artists’ as being in itself a genre. Extending the recent discourse of justifying ‘art by women’ to be more visible in public institutions, but also worthy of independent economy and economic equality.

Gallery There: SmithSt’s special program partner is Art World Women, presenting an invigorating program of talks and events.Exhibiting Artists:

Dena Ashbolt
Emily Besser
Sue Beyer
Louise Blyton
Claire Bridge
Katjarra Butler
Eleanor Louise Butt
Penny Byrne
Leah Emery
Megan Evans
Nyarapayi Giles
Linda Oy Ho
Rosalind Lemoh
Maria Lunney
Emmy Mavroidis
Fiona McMonagle
Megan Seres
Helen Smith
Tania Smith
Zan Wimberley

Address:
Gallery There: SmithSt, 424 Smith Street, Collingwood
Opening 8th March
6 - 8pm
International Women's Day

Gallery There: SmithSt

424 Smith Street, Collingwood
Out Front: March 8 – April 8, 2018

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Sales and Enquiries

In Out Front I will have new works available for sale. Please get in touch with Marielle Soni regarding sales and enquiries.

Many thanks to Here We See – Gallery There : hereweseegallerythere.com

Black Swan Prize artist talk

I was invited to speak at the Art Gallery of WA (AGWA) for the BSPP.  Facilitated by AGWA’s Associate Curator, Dunja Rmandic. It was a wonderful opportunity to share the story of how the portrait came to be and the reasons why it came together in the way it did. 

Picture L-R: Dunja Rmandic, Associate Curator, AGWA and Dr Shelley Craddock, ARTrinsic

See the finalists video

Uploaded by blackswanprize on 2017-11-07.

Portia Geach Memorial Award

My work "Emerge" has been selected as a finalist for Australia's most distinguished portrait prize for female artists. From over 360 entries a list of 54 finalists has been announced the Portia Geach Memorial Award with $30,000 in prize money.

Portia Geach Memorial Award
SH Ervin Gallery
Sydney
Fri 20 October 2017 until Sun 26 November 2017

"The Portia Geach Memorial Award has nurtured emerging and established artists to exhibit quality works competitively in their field, while celebrating the promotion of female artists. Established in 1961 by Florence Kate Geach, in memory of her sister, artist Portia Geach, the Portia Geach Memorial Award recognises an Australian female artist for the best portrait painted from life of a man or woman distinguished in art, letters or the sciences.

Born in 1873 in Melbourne, Portia Geach studied with John Singer Sargent and Lawrence Alma-Tadema in London and was also a lifelong activist for women’s rights. She established the Housewives Progressive Association of New South Wales, The Housewives Magazine in 1933 and the Progressive Journal two years later to promote issues such as equal pay for women and the right to hold public office." http://www.artistprofile.com.au/portia-geach-finalists/
 

CLAIRE BRIDGE    

Emerge (Tamara Dean, Artist)
oil on linen
123 x 123 cm

(Available)

It is a transition of soul to enter the dark woods. It was Dante who recognised this, writing, “In the middle of the road of life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost”.

“Emerge” is a portrait of artist Tamara Dean. Emerge is about moving through liminal spaces, between the shadows and the light. Of entering alchemical ritual mystery, the hidden and unseen spaces, and emerging changed, of being lost and finding oneself. Much of Dean’s own work is located within the elements of nature and specifically within ritual, in the soft, glowing effusion of light between day and night where human and nature are inextricably merging and emerging. My own practice is at this juncture also, in the heart of the relationship between humanity and our earth at this precipice of change. In this way, there is a merging of heart and vision in our ways of working and being in the world. Dean has a beautiful integrity in her life and art, where one is also the other. Here is the moment where we, (artist and subject now merged), emerge from the dark wood, changed, carrying both the light and darkness within us.”

ANL Art Prize

My work "Where Clouds touch the earth" has been selected as  finalist in the 2017 ANL Art Prize. Works are for sale
view the work

Sales and Enquiries here
Funds raised support the Mission.

The exhibition is open daily for public viewing from 6th – 27th October, 2017 at the historic seafarers’ centre at 717 Flinders Street, Docklands from 12 noon – 6pm.  

ABOUT THE ART PRIZE

Since 2002 the Mission to Seafarers Victoria’s Maritime Art Awards & Exhibition has showcased the work of over 700 artists and is Australia’s leading maritime art prize. Prize money awarded to date has exceeded $175,000 and the event has raised over $230,000 toward the provision of seafarers’ welfare services in Victoria.

Black Swan Prize

Claire Bridge has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Black Swan Prize for Portraiture for 2017. In 2015 Claire was a Silver Medallist in the Black Swan Prize with her Highly commended work "Sanctuary". This work "We breathe as one", a portrait of friend and artist Tamara Dean, has been selected as a finalist from over 340 entries.

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We breathe as One (Tamara Dean)
Oil on linen
40x40cms
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"In an increasingly connected world, interdependence, a philosophy recognising that we all exist in relationship with everything and everyone else, has relevance as a way of understanding ourselves in our world.

“We Breathe as One” refers to the simple but beautiful relationship of co-existing, interdependently with nature. As we breathe out, a tree breathes in. As a tree exhales, we inhale. Painting Dean, I was struck by her generosity of spirit, her humility and a focussed and fierce determination. Her life and her work are integrated, seamlessly.

Extending across photography, installation and participatory works exploring the relationship between humans and the natural world and the role ritual plays in our lives, Dean’s practice relies on her subjects experiencing and engaging with their environment and emotions well as her own inclusion in the ritual. My painting reflects this essential connection."

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Bundanon Artist in Residence

Claire Bridge has been announced as Artist-in-Residence at Bundanon for 2018. This is an exciting  and highly sought after opportunity. With past AIRs such as The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Katie Noonan and Fiona Lowry to name just a few, Bridge will be among some wonderful creative peers in the beautiful surrounds of Bundandon on the Shoalhaven River. 

https://bundanon.com.au/residencies/

The program attracts diverse contemporary artists and thinkers from both within Australia and overseas. Located in a rich natural and cultural environment on a working property on the Shoalhaven River, our residencies are an excellent opportunity for artists to refresh, refocus and perhaps make unexpected connections with other artists in residence.

Chippendale World Art Residency

Claire Bridge has been selected as one of the 40 finalists for the 2017 Chippendale World Art Residency. 

Three winners of the Chippendale World Art Residency will be granted access to the NG Art Creative Residency Program. In 2017 President Nicky Ginsberg has taken NG ART global, establishing the NG ART Residency program in Eygalières, France, set to nurture work by artists, writers, performers, academics and scholars.

Finalists will be announced in August and their work displayed in an online gallery for public viewing. Three winners of the Chippendale World Art Residency and a People’s Choice Award Winner will be announced in late September.

Voting can be done online here or via instagram. Voters go in the draw to win a prize.

2017 Adjudication Panel:

● Dr. Stanley Quek – The prize’s benefactor, former chairman of Frasers Property Australia and current Executive Chairman & CEO of Greencliff, patron of the arts and the brainchild behind the Frasers Artist Residency.

● Raphael Rubinstein – New York-based poet and art critic, former senior editor and contributor at Art in America and professor of critical studies at the University of Houston School of Art. Winner of Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters and the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

● Anita Taylor – Dean of Bath School of Art and Design. Former Director and CEO of the National Art School, as well as an Adjunct Professor for the Sydney College of the Arts, at the University of Sydney. Founding Director of the Jerwood Drawing Prize project UK and established artist.

● Nicky Ginsberg – President of the Chippendale Creative Precinct, Founder of the Prize & Director of the NG Art Creative Residency, Provence

"Vote for your favourite finalist of the Chippendale World Art Residency prize! Head to the Instagram @CWAR_2017 and vote for the work that transports you somewhere magical!

Vote and you enter the draw to win dinner for two at Chippendale’s favourite French fine dining experience, Bistrot Gavroche. Pretend you are in the South of France with our winners by sipping imported Champagne and indulging in escargot right here on Kensington Street!"

Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award

Claire Bridge has been announced Winner of the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award People's Choice Award 2014 for her work 'Sanctuary' at Bega Valley Regional Gallery. The 2014 judge was Dr. Sarah Engeldow, historian and senior curator at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. 

Article: Hannan People's Choice winner announced

Black Swan Portrait Prize 2014

Claire Bridge awarded Highly Commended, Silver Medal
Black Swan Portrait Prize 2014

Melbourne Art Fair

Claire Bridge at Melbourne Art Fair
Royal Exhibition Buildings

The Dark Side
Flinders Lane Gallery
stand C108
http://www.flg.com.au/exhibition/melbourne-art-fair-2
Artist Talks and Walks
Saturday August 16th 2014
Claire Bridge at FLG
Stand C108 at 1 pm

Nite Art - Claire Bridge Alchemy

Claire Bridge raises $1350 for Make a Wish Foundation during Nite Art. The Art and the Curious reviews Claire Bridge and live painting at Nite Art. Read on

Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2014

Claire Bridge is a finalist in the Rick Amor Drawing Prize 2014
Exhibition runs from Feb 1st - 23rd March 2014
Art Gallery of Ballarat

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Air Born

Air Born

Claire Bridge
Solo Exhibition 

March 29 - 12 April 2014
Anthea Polson Art, Gold Coast
to be opened by Sharne Wolff