Image: Claire Bridge, The Water Carriers: Trans-formations, 2024, Kingston Arts Centre, installation view, photo Simon Strong

CLAIRE BRIDGE
The Water Carriers: Trans-formations

Kingston Arts Centre

G2 Gallery

19 September - 1 November 2025

The Water Carriers: Trans-formations explores connections between women, water, and reimagined myths in an exhibition of new sculptural ceramics by Claire Bridge.
Reframing the myth of Daphne, Bridge considers hybridity, adaptation, and queering of human and non-human relationships as strategies for survival and trans-formation. Daphne’s metamorphosis into a laurel tree and escape from Apollo’s relentless pursuit - becomes an act of ecological queerness and biophilic inter-being, challenging extractive, patriarchal narratives.

Women’s bodies, labour, and lives are commodified and disproportionately impacted by climate change and water scarcity. ‘The Water Carriers’ reflects on our environmental relationships and envisions possibilities for ecological renewal.