Edwina Bridgeman, Pigeon Coop, detail
Edwina Bridgeman, Bird Box, detail
Edwina Bridgeman, Love Film
Edwina Bridgeman: Shelter
13 March - 6 May 2010
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press release here.
Edwina Bridgeman began her career in the
theatre. After taking a Diploma in Technical Theatre Arts she
worked for 10 years as a scene painter, latterly at the Bristol Old
Vic. Returning to full time education, she took a BTEC in Art
and Design. In 1996 she started making sculptures by a
process of construction and assembly.
The artist is well known for her imaginative
use of recycled materials, from china and glass to scraps of metal
and driftwood. She loves going beach-combing:
"I am keen to bring new life to the
discarded. I love the wonderful bleached quality of driftwood
and the fact that you don’t know how long it has been there or
where it has come from. I paint faces onto the plaster base
which enables fine detail and gives a fresco-like quality, a
contrast to the less predictable nature of the wood. I try to
create a sense of movement within each piece and the whole subject
of journeying is one that fascinates me. The work is
narrative and I hope to draw the observer into the piece and set
them on a journey."
Edwina Bridgeman, In the Garden