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Leigh Bridges

Canadian artist Leigh Bridges lives and works in Winnipeg and holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from the University of Victoria. Bridges was based in Berlin from 2005 to 2007. While in Germany, her exploration of collage vis-à-vis painting developed in dialogue with the “Leipzig School”, with a particular emphasis on aspects of the sublime in landscape depictions. Bridges' most recent work both expands and complicates these established directions, intersecting modernist forms, schema for do-it-yourself sustainable technology, and landscape.

Leigh Bridges has exhibited across Canada, in the United States and overseas, most recently in Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Vancouver, Melbourne, Seattle and Skien, Norway. Her work is part of several corporate collections, including Bank of Montreal, Toronto Dominion Bank, and Global Affairs Canada. Bridges holds a position of Assistant Professor of Art and Design at the University of Manitoba.


General Artist Statement

"Broadly, my work explores the subject of provisional living and the sublime pastoral. To me, these subjects suggest conditions of wonder, uncertainty, anxiety as well as openness to possibilities. This paradox motivates my work. Sources are varied, ranging from survivalist manuals, do-it-yourself backyard fort building, animation, folk tales, and 19th century romantic landscape paintings.

I am motivated by an interest in narrative, combined with what may seem to be the opposite impulse: a materialist approach. I look for moments of surprise, often the result of a competition between form and narrative. One painting can contain various senses of time, both as the suggestion of a moment in a narrative sequence, and in the layering and material evidence of the painting’s construction.

My work has been influenced by my experience living for extended periods in Edmonton, Vancouver and Berlin. In 2007, I returned from working for two years in Berlin, where I researched contemporary exhibitions as well as German Romantic painters such as Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge. Another strong motivational interest has been colour field abstraction and its phenomenological aspect, due in part to developmental time spent in Edmonton. Geographic locations have yielded physical and cultural landscapes which inform my work."


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