Bridget Kennedy // Profile
Bridget Kennedy is a compulsive organiser. She uses systemisation as a survival tactic, as a means of creating a little quietness amidst the clamour of modern life. For the majority of the past decade she has lived and worked on the outskirts of a small village in the North of England. Whilst seeking out wildness and wilderness through interaction with nature she succumbs to the ever present desire to tame and control. She sees herself as a librarian of the landscape, constantly cataloguing.
"I am interested in how landscape has been historically represented and the selection processes involved in representing a place.
Knowing the influence that landscape painting and ‘the picturesque’ has on attitudes towards landscape forms a foundation from which I examine the composition, representation and presentation of landscape.
In recent works I have been capturing digital images of landscape via video and stills camera, using software I re-interpret the image and find its inherent structure.
Over the course of the two-year MFA, that I completed in June 2007, I identified areas of interest that are key to my current practice. These are an investigation into the act of looking, the process of translation and the organisation of information.
I work with photography, video, drawing and printing. At present I am in the process of making a series of photo screen prints, which combine re-interpreted digital information, photographic imagery and drawings by nineteenth century scientists".
Artist's CV
Education
2005-2007 MFA Glasgow School of Art (AHRC funded)
Sept-Dec 2006 exchange student at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam
June -Sept 1994 apprenticeship in stained glass, Vertrate Artistiche Toscane, Siena
1988-1992 BA Hons Fine Art University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Solo Exhibitions
July 2008: Landline: Veggverk, Akureyri, Iceland
April 2007 "Analysis of a view": Vic Gallery, Glasgow
March 2007 "Wall Drawing": The Flat, Barnes Building, Glasgow
January 2007 "I can still feel the wind in my hair": 54 Bell St, Glasgow
March 2006 "Every Day I Will Live": The Flat, Barnes Building, Glasgow
March 1999 “From NY848467 to NY863454" ACA , Allenheads
September1998 "Observations" Hancock Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Duo Exhibitions
March 2007 "Loch Long": Bluttenweisse, Berlin
Group exhibitions
April 2008: More Today than Yesterday, Globe City Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
October 2007: FRED 07, various sites in Cumbria
September 2007: "Further More" (MFA final show on tour) Metro Gallery, Berlin
August 2007: "Multiplicity": In House Edinburgh, Edinburgh
June 2007: "Further More" (MFA final show): Tramway, Glasgow
October 2006 "Parasite": Gallery Blaak10, Rotterdam
July 2006 "Members show": Transmission, Glasgow
May 2006: "Kunstvlaai 6": Westergasfabriekterrein, Amsterdam
May 2006 "Interim Show": MFA class show Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art,
February 2006 "Russian Dolls": The Assembly gallery, Glasgow
October 2003 “Contraflow” The Pentagon Centre, Glasgow
August 2000 “Bugs” The Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon
September 1999 “Run Rabbit Run" Waygood Gallery Newcastle-upon-Tyne and ACA Allenheads
Collaborations
May 2006 "Elemental Memory": Assembly Gallery, Glasgow - collaborative work with musician from RSAMD
April 2006 "Life Park" Kingston car park, Glasgow - (part of Cabin Exchange)
January 2002 “Plot" The Waygood Gallery Newcastle-upon-Tyne
September 2001 “Five Go Mad In The Studio" Queen's Hall Art Centre Hexham.
October 2000 “Setting Up” VANE 2000 Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Residencies and Symposia
March - October 2008: Triparks, Northumberland National Park and AHA residency
September 2006: Cove Park, Argyll and Bute, Scotland: Student residency
April 2006: student symposium: Glasgow school of Art: symposium speaker and participant
March 2006: "Art in the Land": Crichton Campus, Dumfries: symposium participant
July 2004: "Drawing Quarters", UWE, Bristol: practice based symposium: participant
Employment (part time)
2001- 2005 Studio Tutor in Fine Art Dept, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
2000 - 2004 Art technician, Haydon Bridge High School, Northumberland
June -Dec 2001 Public commission for West Chevington Family Centre
Employment (voluntary)
1999-2002 - project co-ordinator of Fathom Five an artist's initiative
June 1993 project assistant on Time and Tide: Tyne International, Newcastle
June 1991 project assistant on The Last Weekend: Alston, Cumbria
April-June 1990 project assistant on Edge 90, Newcastle-upon-Tyne