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Virginia

@virginiabridge

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Queering abstraction
Brighton
Turps East Sussex 26/27
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Multiple image posts with different captions. Swipe left! Time to meet the artists for ‘The Warp and the Weft’ ; an open call exhibition showcasing the work of Sussex based artists and makers. Meet Virginia Bridge! @virginiabridge works across painting and printmaking, using geometric abstraction to explore how form, colour and surface affect us on an emotional level. Drawing on architectural structures and the rhythms of modernist design, she creates compositions that balance precision with a more intuitive, expressive quality. Beneath this formal language lies a deeper interest in the limits of representation, and in what can be communicated beyond the familiar or easily defined. Her work asks us to spend time looking, allowing our responses to emerge without the need to find a single meaning. Opus 2607 Oil and graphite on canvas 30 x 30 cm ‘The work is rooted in the tradition of hard-edged geometric painting but tempered with an interest in materiality, surface texture and effacement. The process of making is undertaken in an elusive quest for perfection; always a balance between intuition and consideration, between planning and impulsivity. The need to control is always a driver that can sometimes be relinquished through working in silence, in a zen-like meditative state, enabling more intuitive decisions to be made. I often start with a working drawing as a plan and, as the work evolves, intuition takes over. As an elder queer nearing the end of my seventh decade, my life has been a journey through a hostile environment. Masking and control have been essential survival strategies, with authentic self-expression often supressed. Shame, internalised homophobia and rage have been dominant emotions from which a contemplative practice gives both respite and outlet. I grew up hiding my identity and subsequently worked in education against the backdrop of Section 28. Caution and control were branded into me. It was a form of suppression and I see this exercise in restraint , this wrestling with the tension between control and chaos, playing out in my work.’ Virginia Bridge Artists and collectors PV 16th October by RSVP Show runs 17th October to 8th N by @virginiabridge
I’m delighted to have two pieces selected for the @rwabristol 173rd annual open exhibition this year. It opens 12th September until 3rd January next year. I’m very much looking forward to tomorrow’s PV and the chance to see all the other selected work and catch up with Bristol folks! by @virginiabridge
Obligatory photo of me with my work at Varnishing day @royalacademyarts . I had a brilliant day looking at all the amazing art and catching up with friends! My piece is in room V. Thank you to Goshka Macuga @gonogo.space for selecting it! Super happy to be in room V….what a beautiful and vibrant hang. I really love how integrated and cohesive the whole show is too. I can’t wait to go back and see it again…so much to take in! by @virginiabridge
I was super happy to receive this email this morning! Thank you to the selectors @royalacademyarts . Can’t wait for Varnishing Day. 😀🙏🙏 by @virginiabridge
Opus 2613. Hand burnished relief. 31 x 41cm. On Awagami Kitakata. by @virginiabridge
The Affordable Art Fair in Hampstead opens tonight A little insight with music by the wonderful Sweet Thieves. @sorayaschofield_art @virginiabridge @barrycawston.r.w.a @hammerchen1113 @sweet.thieves by @virginiabridge
Opus 2612. Oil on canvas. 75cm x 60cm. by @virginiabridge
New painting. Opus 2611. Oil on canvas. 75cm x 600cm. by @virginiabridge
Grateful to have both these recent oil paintings shortlisted for the @royalacademyarts Summer Exhibition. Thank you to the selection committee and 🤞for the next round! by @virginiabridge
Opus 2607. Oil and graphite in canvas. 30 x 30cm. by @virginiabridge
Opus 2606. Oil and graphite on canvas. 30 x 30cm. by @virginiabridge
Opus 2607. Oil and graphite on canvas. 50cm x 40cm. Finished today. by @virginiabridge

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