Kay Bridge
Out From Down Under & Beyond: Fine Art From Australia and New Zealand
May 11 - June 1, 2010
Reception:
Thursday May 13, 2010 6-8 PM
Press Release
Seductively sincere in her representation of the Australian landscape, Kay Bridge uses an eloquently realist visual vocabulary in order to explore the native nuances of her homeland. Sharply honest in her depictions of the vast azure skies and immense scarlet spaces that are Australia’s essence, Bridge dexterously imbues her works with an intimate understanding of her surroundings. Whether working with digital media or pastel, Bridge strives to be faithful to Australia as she experiences it. Wildly rough yet magically romantic in color and texture, Bridge’s works exude the radiating heat in their precision, making palpable the mystically mysterious lives of desert inhabitants. “I like my landscape images to accurately represent what I see and I want my audience to feel the heat, smell the dust and feel the need to brush away the flies,” emphatically states Bridge. In doing so, Bridge aesthetically describes the intrinsic beauties that personify Australia’s scorching, desiccate desert.
Bridge lives and works in South Australia, where she also teaches Art and Design in Secondary Schools.
Artist Statement
I like to think of myself as a Australian contemporary realist. I like my landscape images to represent what I see accurately and for my audience to feel the heat, smell the dust and feel the need to brush away the flies. I have always found the immense spaces and gargantuan skies of Australia to have an almost physical impact upon my senses and I hope that my art conveys some of that. Appropriately for an Australian landscape artist, I work in the driest medium, pastel. One of the defining moments in my use of pastel is connected to my slight red/green colour-blindness. I was creating a picture in the Flinders Ranges and to get the colour of the ground just right I actually used the red dust at my feet as pigment for the soil in my picture. This is my Australia and I’d like to show you how I see it.
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