'My work investigates transitions; from stillness to movement, changes of psychological states and notions of shifting time. Essentially, through the figure I explore the human condition and the evolution of the human spirit, embodied most often through the female form in shifting moments of experience, poignant or dramatic. With reference to classical traditions, I employ intense high realism and dramatic lighting in works informed by myth and story, imbued with symbolism. Light and dark become symbolic of the emerging and disintegrating natures of our existence. It is this edge of change in which I am most interested.'
Claire Bridge

In 2009, Bridge won both the People's Choice Award and the Living Art Award for the Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize.  With her portrait If Looks Could Kill, she was a finalist in the 2009 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize for the second year running. A large scale banner of her work was hung outside the State Library of NSW to promote the exhibition.

Claire will be holding her first solo exhibition with Flinders Lane Gallery in September 2010.

Claire Bridge also features in 'Debutantes - 50 things Collectors Need to Know', Australian Art Collector Issue#51

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