Biography

Born 1979 Karta (Kangaroo Island), South Australia

Bridget Currie works across a range of modalities including sculpture, performance, drawing, writing, public art and installation. Her art practice is process oriented. Currie explores the representation of abstract states of being and systems of thought, with a focus on social theory, art history and ecology. Her central concern as an artist is bringing invisible things, such as thoughts, emotions, states of being and dreams into the physical world of objects.

She is currently based in Adelaide, on the Kaurna lands of South Australia.

Currie has exhibited widely in Australia since graduating from Bachelor Visual Arts (Honours) in 2001. Her work has been shown at: the Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Artspace Sydney, PICA, 24 Hr Art and the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Artbank; numerous independent artist run spaces and in the commercial sector at Greenaway Gallery, Grant Pirrie and Ryan Renshaw.

Internationally, In 2007/08 she was a resident at the CCA Kitakyshu in Japan for 7 months where her interest in microbiology and pickles developed. In 2011 she was awarded an Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship and studied at the Kunglia Konsthogskolan in Stockholm. From 2012 to 2016 she lived and worked  in Europe; and participated in residencies at Fo.AM and wolke in Brussels, AADK centro negra in Spain, and at 5Months project in London. In October 2016 she was artist in residence at Rupert in Vilnius, Lithuania.