BRIDGETTE ASHTON
Bridgette’s work depicts places and narratives, sometimes real and at other times invented. Her practice is multifaceted; encompassing sculpture, print and participatory works and engaging with redundant or overlooked sites, objects and archives, making scale-models, depictions and proposals.
We first worked with Bridgette in 2016 when we commissioned her for The Future Project, the second iteration of Inland Festival, for which she developed Model for Hocking’s Cross Course Touring Visitor Experience in reference to historic archive plans of Wheal Buller Mine. In 2018, she was selected for The History Commission for Plymouth Art Weekender, where she worked with The Box Plymouth to develop new work inspired by the discovery of Plymouth’s Cattedown Caves and their connection to the destruction and further reconstruction of Plymouth.
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We first worked with Bridgette in 2016 when we commissioned her for The Future Project, the second iteration of Inland Festival, for which she developed Model for Hocking’s Cross Course Touring Visitor Experience in reference to historic archive plans of Wheal Buller Mine. In 2018, she was selected for The History Commission for Plymouth Art Weekender, where she worked with The Box Plymouth to develop new work inspired by the discovery of Plymouth’s Cattedown Caves and their connection to the destruction and further reconstruction of Plymouth.
Bridgette is best known for her work with mineralogy and collections as well as caves and grottoes, often combining traditional sculptural media with low fi materials questioning replica and reimagining.
bridgetteashton.co.uk
Images: Model for Hocking’s Cross Course Touring Visitor Experience, Inland Festival, 2016, photo Artur Tixiliski / Excavations & Equivocations Minibus tour, part of Worth’s Folly, Plymouth Art Weekender, 2018, photo Rod Gonzalez / Worth’s Folly, Plymouth Art Weekender, 2018, photo Rod Gonzalez
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