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Bridgette Ashton

Bridgette Ashton uses a wide range of media and processes focusing on print (linocut, woodcut and silkscreen) stitching, cast plaster and assemblage. She has recently been using second hand visual source material; particularly flower arranging books, embroidered postcards and old sightseeing guidebooks producing amalgamations of print, collage and stitching.

EDUCATION

1987 - 1991

1986-1987

Brighton Polytechnic, East Sussex. First class hons in fashion textiles

Stevenage College of Art & Design, Herts.art foundation

EXHIBITIONS

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1994

Vitreous Contemporary Art, Truro

Catmose Gallery, Oakham, Rutland

Handmade 2, Craftspace Touring, various venues, Staffordshire
Lovely Jubbly, St George's Gallery, Folkestone, Kent
Transformations: the art of recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

The Seaside, Poole Museum, Dorset
Transformations: the art of recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Textiles West, Museum of Barnstable & North Devon

Crowning Glory Norwegian Church Gallery, Cardiff. Solo show of 2-D and 3-D work
Start 2000, moving image festival, Plymouth Devon
Transformations: the art of recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

British Art, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall
Korova, Truro, Cornwall. Solo show of prints, drawings and assemblages
Stretch, Easthorpe Visual Arts, Mirfield, Yorks

Works on Paper , Sherwell Centre, Plymouth, Devon. Two person show
Two Fields of Vision: works on paper, Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon. Two person show
Brava, Canton, Cardiff. Solo show of prints, drawings and assemblages
Art Supermarket, Heffer Gallery, Cambridge

Start 97 Moving Image Festival, Plymouth, Devon
Kinofilm 97 International Short Film Festival, Manchester (short animation film Every Inch A King)

Blue Funk, Levis Strauss Gallery, Regent St, London
Headlines, Collins Gallery, Glasgow

Art of the Stitch, Commonwealth Institute, London; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Award for outstanding work in sketchbook
Shortlisted for Nat West 90s Art prize
7th International Design Competition, Osaka, Japan
Odds and Ends Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Lancs

New English Art Club exhibition Mall Galleries, London

 

 

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