CHIMERA

Claire Bridge’s solo exhibition Chimera merges the mythic and grotesque in a potent fusion bringing together the biological, biographical, symbolic and metaphysical in sculptural ceramics. Her hybrid beings balance the conceptual and intuitive in chimeric conglomerations which disturb and seduce with exuberant colour and rich, fascinating ceramic surfaces. Informed by scientific and ecological concerns, yet interwoven with traces of myth, story and the ancestral lineages of her mixed Anglo-Indian-Australian heritage, Bridge's sculptures possess a strangeness and glamour which intrigue.

Claire Bridge
Chimera
ACAE Gallery
82A Wellington St Collingwood
Nov 2022- Jan 31st 2023

Installed over two levels of the gallery, Bridge’s eleven sculptural works range from the small skull cup Elixir works, a series of cleverly conceived golden ouroboros and torus forms including Thousand Petal Lotus, to Chimera, and a large wall piece made from over 900 handmade ceramic pieces.

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Photos by Simon Strong