Claire Bridge showing in
WOMEN IN ART
til 24 December 2020
BVIA
307-309 Clarendon St
South Melbourne
WOMEN IN ART, til 24 December 2020
Claire Bridge, Bombshell Rita, 2018 glazed stoneware ceramic, enamel
McClelland National Small Sculpture Awards 2020
Claire Bridge is a finalist in the McClelland National Small Sculpture Awards 2020.
The 44 finalists reflect a strong diversity of approaches to sculpture in the 21st Century. A variety of mediums, influences, career levels and conceptual interests are embodied in the finalist grouping. On behalf of the three Judges, Jason Smith, Director Geelong Art Gallery, and McClelland Trustees and Artists Lisa Roet and John Young AM, our congratulations to the 44 finalists, and notably the four 2020 awardees, Kerrie Poliness, Cyrus Tang, Matt Hinkley and James Geurts.
Shortlisted artists are: Fiona Abicare, Daniel Agdag, Claire Bridge, Robert Bridgewater, Eugene Carchesio, Aaron Carter, Kris Coad, Ewen Coates, Narinda Cook, Augustine Dall’Ava, Emma Davies, Michael Doolan, Brodie Ellis, Danny Fotopoulos, James Geurts, Matt Hinkley, Odette Ireland, Freya Jobbins, Yvonne Kendall, Madeline Kidd, Alicia King, Michael Le Grand, Lucas Maddock, John Meade, Sanné Mestrom, Clare Milledge, Clive Murray-White, Nell, Louise Paramor, Sassy Park, Mary Lou Pavlovic, Kenny Pittock, Kerrie Poliness, Steven Rendall, Juan David Rodriguez Sandoval, Paul Selwood, Ema Shin, Matthew Sleeth, Vipoo Srivilasa, Kylie Stillman, Cyrus Tang, Ronnie van Hout, Jan van Schaik, and Narelle White.
image: Claire Bridge, Grenade, 2019
CONFLUENCE Counihan Gallery, Artist Talks
Confluence Artist Talk
Confluence Artists Talks LIVE - 18th July 2020, at 2 pm
You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Jul 18, 2020 02:00 PM (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney)
Topic: CONFLUENCE - Artists Talk with Bridge + Blincoe + Mavroidis - 18th July at 2 - 3:30 pm
Register in advance for this webinar:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UYRpLkfmQ-eYcoHcHWzhlA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Auslan Interpreted Event.
Recording available soon!
CONFLUENCE showing to 12 DEC 2020, Counihan Gallery
Claire Bridge. Embodying the Ancestors, 2020. Archival pigment print on cotton rag paper, 70 x 55 cm. Courtesy of the artist
CONFLUENCE
CLAIRE BRIDGE + EMMY MAVROIDIS + JEREMY BLINCOE
27 June - 26 July 2020
Counihan Gallery
CONFLUENCE brings together three artists exploring human relationships with water; from the devastating, unbalanced and in-crisis, to the flowing and harmonious. In the confluence, what has emerged is that each artist creates works with the subject as active co-author. The nature of the works are inextricably interwoven with the nature of their subject and materials. Through their work each artist embodies a practice of interbeing, where the boundaries are blurred between subject, material and artist and in the confluence of their works together, are evidence of a collective interconnectivity, with the tree and water as central and connecting motifs.
Gallery Curator, Victor Griss says:
“The Counihan Gallery In Brunswick is proud to present the work of three contemporary artists whose artworks relate the state of the environment to our psychological and physiological being. The exhibition explores the interrelationship between their own varied practice and a broader symbolic and tactile conversation with nature.”
Event details
Artists Floor Talk
CONFLUENCE
4th July, 2- 3 pm
Counihan Gallery
Artists Floor Talk with Guest Speaker, Deborah Hart, Co-Founder Climarte and author of Guarding Eden.
Event details
ERASURE, showing at COVA, virtual exhibition
Claire Bridge, Silence/Violence, 2018, handwoven Bokhara rug, basmati rice, vintage books, 170 x 240cm with variable dimensions, installation view. Image courtesy the artist
ASSEMBLY POINT | ReAssemble
ERASURE
curated by NUR SHKEMBI
With artists NINA ROSE PRENDERGAST, CLAIRE BRIDGE, DARREN TANNY TAN, JIA JIA CHEN, SUSANNAH LANGLEY, AZZA ZEIN, KAYLEIGH GOH, SOYOUN KIM
Opens May 28th
Artist +Curator Talk, June 17th
VIEW
ATTUNE at Sawtooth ARI, November 2019
Through a series of photographs, ceramic sculptural objects, and performative engagements, Attune brings together the science and embodied perceptions of lived-through trauma.
Claire Bridge’s works explore subjectivity, contact and connection between the wounded, traumatised body, self in reposes to the lack connection and empathy in society.
DIVERGENT, June 28 - July 27, Assembly Point
'Divergent' is an encounter with imaginative and conceptual possibilities.
Curated by Claire Bridge, 'Divergent' brings together artists exploring alternative realities and unique ways of perceiving. The shared environmental and societal challenges of our current age require a capacity to leap out and split away from the mainstream in order to explore news ways of imagining.
Sue Beyer deviates into an escapist fantasy world, moving beyond the digital glitch. Matt Greenwood’s lenticular image bends and distorts desires, invoking sensual responses to fleshy forms. In her sculptural ceramic bombshells that morph gendered mythologies with the horrors of war and the global environmental climate crisis, Claire Bridge explores the origins of bikini bombshell and the collapsing of female sexuality with destruction and gendered violence. Anna Kennedy dissolves relationships with time and space with her Infinity Loop, while Yuying Pang takes a performative approach to investigating her personal relationship with society, through evoking situational and contextual awareness.
Vitrines at
Assembly Point: Guild
(the Vitrines are glass display cases in the outside walkway and can be viewed 24/7)
152 Sturt Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Artists:
Sue Beyer
Claire Bridge
Matt Greenwood
Anna Kennedy
Yuying Pang
Claire Bridge, in the Shirley Hannan National Portrait Award
CLAIRE BRIDGE, Brave not Perfect, 2018, oil on linen, 135 x 167 cm
Jade Hameister....
At 16 years of age, January 11th 2018, Jade Hameister arrived at the South Pole after an epic 37 day trek, setting world records and becoming the youngest person to ski from the coast of Antarctica to South Pole unsupported, unassisted and completing the Polar Hat-Trick. Jade’s conviction in the potential of young women, to focus on the possibilities of their actions and not how they appear, inspired me greatly. I thought “Here is the dream coming true. In a society where women and girls are often limited by expectations and discrimination, in Jade I saw a young woman living her potential with daring and freedom… and a powerful message to protect the planet and save species.” I had to paint her portrait.
Jade's book "My Polar Quest" has just been released and the National Geographic film on her epic adventure just premiered in "Jade's Quest"
UNPLUGGED, opens Oct 23
Showcasing the work of graduating students of the class of 2018 of the Graduate Certificate in Visual Art (GCVA), Unplugged opens at ArtSpace, The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, Southbank on Tuesday 23 October, 5- 7 pm. Exhibition to be opened by Head of VCA, Dr Kate Daw.
Drinks and light finger food provided.
Special thanks to our Event Sponsor “U Panel”
Exhibition 23 Oct - 26 Oct
Wed and Thurs, 10- 5 pm
Fri 10 - 3 pm
VCA Artspace
Dodds St, Southbank
This Creative Life Podcast interview with Claire Bridge
The Creative Life Podcast interview with Claire Bridge and Felicity O'Conner
PODCAST listen
- Claire Bridge is an artist and the founder of Art World Women in Melbourne
- Discusses her art practice, themes and approaches
- Overcoming resistance and procrastination
- Origins of Art World women from 2011 to now
- Gender Inequity and addressing equality in the Arts
- Out Front exhibition from March 8th – celebrating the range and diversity of contemporary art by women.
- upcoming exhibitions for Claire Bridge
FECUND - Fertile Worlds, Touring nationally, 23/03/2018 - 12/01/2019
Fecund - Fertile Worlds
“Fecund aims to point out how deep the relationship between humans and the natural world is.”
Announced as the inaugural SPARK NT Curator in September 2017, Katherine based curator Clare Armitage presents Fecund: Fertile Worlds. A diverse exhibition of contemporary artists from across the NT and Australia, Fecund is a collective response to life, death and renewal in the natural world.
It celebrates the intrinsically optimistic nature of growth. It evokes the natural landscape, reproductive cycles and sex, and acknowledges the resilience of life, the interconnectedness of living systems, and the will to exist.
Fecund brings together a diverse array of art forms to conjure a visceral experience of the world we inhabit.
https://artbacknt.com.au/show/fecund-fertile-worlds/
About the artists
Chips Mackinolty (NT), Steve Gough (NT), John Wolseley (VIC), Nikala Bourkem (TAS) , Patricia Casey (NSW), Monica Watson (SA), Molly Jugadai (NT), Winsome Jobling (NT), Pony Express, Eve Nganjmirra (NT) Linda Joy (NT), Karina Coombes (NT), Merran Sierakowski (NT), Djirrirra Wunungmurra (NT), Eva Nganjmirra (NT), Gwenneth Blitner (NT), Christie Torrington (NSW), Talitha Kennedy (NSW), Tarron Ruiz-Avila and Gini Vecerina (NSW), Claire Bridge (VIC) and Steve Axford (NSW)
Fecund, meaning highly fertile or abundant new growth, presents a collection of contemporary works that inspire conversation and contemplation. Bringing together artists from all over Australia at different stages of their careers, the works are connected by the notions of fertility and the capacity to transform.
The exhibition is a visceral experience that includes a range of art forms. Large installation works such as Talitha Kennedy’s anthropomorphic black leather mangroves occupy the floor, while Nikala Bourke’s macroscopic images of plants and Djirrajirra Wunungmurra’s intricate Yukuwa yam paintings balance the irreverent and erotic works of Pony Express. Sounds from Claire Bridge’s video work permeate the space.
Fecund: Fertile Worlds is the first exhibition outcome from the SPARK NT Emerging Curator Program, initiated by Artback NT and supported by regional gallery partners: Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin; Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Cultural Centre in Katherine; Nyinkka Nyunyu Cultural Centre in Tennant Creek and Araluen Arts Centre in Alice Springs.
Armitage’s exhibition Fecund: Fertile Worlds will tour throughout the Northern Territory in 2018.
NCCA - Northern Centre for Contemporary Art
DARWIN, NT
Start: 23 March 2018
End: 14 April 2018
Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Cultural Centre
KATHERINE, NT
Start: 11 June 2018
End: 22 July 2018
Araluen Arts Centre
ALICE SPRINGS, NT
Start: 16 November 2018
End: 3 March 2019
Best of the Best at Gallery One
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
View the exhibition
Art World Women
artworldwomen.com
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
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