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Bridget Kennedy

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Bridget Kennedy is an artist, educator and underground tour guide living in the midst of a post-industrial landscape. Working with energetic presences and material engagement she aims towards a shift in thinking about human / nature dynamics.
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Bridget Kennedy (b. 1970 Netherlands) is a compulsive organiser. She uses systemisation as a survival tactic, as a means of creating a little quietness amidst the clamor of modern life. She lives on the outskirts of a small village in the North of England. Whilst seeking out wildness and wilderness through interaction with “nature” she succumbs to the ever present desire to tame and control.  A fascination with maps brings together her two main interests: landscape and the translation of information. Looking is an activity that is under constant scrutiny in Kennedy's practice, with regard to cartography she is intrigued by the leap of imagination that a map-reader undergoes in order to understand a three dimensional environment when looking at a set of symbols on a piece of paper. She expects her viewers to work together with her on their relationship with her pieces, giving clues in titles such as "Trying to understand the creation of the universe with beads and wire" and "Every letter is a number, every number is a colour (creation myths one and two)". There are two main strands to her practice, one is studio based and one is work made in response to place. She uses drawing, sculpture, photography and moving image in conjunction with the study of historical, critical and literary texts to aid her research and sustain her practice. Cool and impersonal at first glance these works expose a very human fragility on closer inspection. Imperfections resulting from the hand-made, homespun and irrational character of the romantic subtly compete with the rigid framework.

 

Future Consciousness (ongoing series of digital collages)

Four Tellings: Reading a West Cumbrian minerology

The Azimuth of Graphite

The Azimuth of Iron

An Invitation from an Artist

The Time of Iron

The stone still feels your touch

Objects for Divining a Nuclear Timescape

Views of Complexity by Bridget Kennedy, May 2020.

The Puzzleator, 2018

The Sea within me

Wylfa Weave Three

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