Virginia Bridge | Opus 2425, 2024
Linocut
Media Dimensions: 42.6 x 52.6 cm
Image Dimensions: 30.6 x 40.6 cm
Edition of 5
Framed/unframed
Virginia Bridge is a queer artist, for whom abstraction is a socio-political praxis; an exploration of what it means to exist on the margins. Bridge's work is concerned with the relationships between forms, surfaces, edges and fields of colour, creating an alternative mode of imaging and imagining and providing a language for emotions that are hard to contain. Whilst much queer activist art uses confrontational visibility to unsettle normativity, Bridge employs the amorphous possibilities of abstraction, resisting the visual taxonomies through which people are recognised, categorised and regulated. Her work should be approached with a curious and meditative mind, observing with slow looking, allowing an open-minded, visceral and intuitive response. This series of relief prints, seen here for the first time, are hand burnished, rather than printed using a press. The integrity of this process, reliant on the human hand, creates a rich surface quality and deeper range of texture. Curved lines and hard-edged forms interact, in an exploration of tension and harmony. Bridge graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1981, with a degree in Music with Fine Art and the University of the West of England in 2019, with an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking. She has exhibited widely across the UK and is represented by David Simon Contemporary and The Drugstore Gallery.
Linocut
Media Dimensions: 42.6 x 52.6 cm
Image Dimensions: 30.6 x 40.6 cm
Edition of 5
Framed/unframed
Virginia Bridge is a queer artist, for whom abstraction is a socio-political praxis; an exploration of what it means to exist on the margins. Bridge's work is concerned with the relationships between forms, surfaces, edges and fields of colour, creating an alternative mode of imaging and imagining and providing a language for emotions that are hard to contain. Whilst much queer activist art uses confrontational visibility to unsettle normativity, Bridge employs the amorphous possibilities of abstraction, resisting the visual taxonomies through which people are recognised, categorised and regulated. Her work should be approached with a curious and meditative mind, observing with slow looking, allowing an open-minded, visceral and intuitive response. This series of relief prints, seen here for the first time, are hand burnished, rather than printed using a press. The integrity of this process, reliant on the human hand, creates a rich surface quality and deeper range of texture. Curved lines and hard-edged forms interact, in an exploration of tension and harmony. Bridge graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1981, with a degree in Music with Fine Art and the University of the West of England in 2019, with an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking. She has exhibited widely across the UK and is represented by David Simon Contemporary and The Drugstore Gallery.
Linocut
Media Dimensions: 42.6 x 52.6 cm
Image Dimensions: 30.6 x 40.6 cm
Edition of 5
Framed/unframed
Virginia Bridge is a queer artist, for whom abstraction is a socio-political praxis; an exploration of what it means to exist on the margins. Bridge's work is concerned with the relationships between forms, surfaces, edges and fields of colour, creating an alternative mode of imaging and imagining and providing a language for emotions that are hard to contain. Whilst much queer activist art uses confrontational visibility to unsettle normativity, Bridge employs the amorphous possibilities of abstraction, resisting the visual taxonomies through which people are recognised, categorised and regulated. Her work should be approached with a curious and meditative mind, observing with slow looking, allowing an open-minded, visceral and intuitive response. This series of relief prints, seen here for the first time, are hand burnished, rather than printed using a press. The integrity of this process, reliant on the human hand, creates a rich surface quality and deeper range of texture. Curved lines and hard-edged forms interact, in an exploration of tension and harmony. Bridge graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1981, with a degree in Music with Fine Art and the University of the West of England in 2019, with an MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking. She has exhibited widely across the UK and is represented by David Simon Contemporary and The Drugstore Gallery.
