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Bridgette Ashton BA
Contact Details
Name: Bridgette Ashton
Job Title: Course manager Foundation Diploma Art, Design & Media
Address: Cornwall College, St Austell, Trevarthian Road, St Austell, PL25 4BU
Tel: 01726 226410
Email: bridgette.ashton@st-austell.ac.uk
Work History
1995 to Present: Lecturer then Course manager Foundation Diploma Art, Design & Media Level 3 and Level 4
1994 to 1995: KIAD, Rochester visiting lecturer
1993 to 1994: Northbrook College, Worthing: visiting lecturer
Research Details
Practice-based research exploring conventions and formats of artists' books and zines. Current research includes: 'Lost Objects' - a collaborative response to found images; Monkey Puzzle Tree Club - locating and photographing clusters of Monkey Puzzle trees and Margate Subterranea - a three volume publication looking at underground sites in Margate.
On-going presentation of work in public galleries and alternative spaces.
Published Articles in Refereed Journals
Snapshot, preview of work in Ambualtion Exhibition. a-n Magazine, September 2010
Profile, artcornwall.org. July 2007
Interview, The Review, BBC Radio Devon, June 2007
Madame Figaro Voyage, Japon - review of current work, summer 2006
a-n magazine - review of I dream of Europe solo exhibition, February 2006
Additional Information
www.bridgetteashton.co.uk
CV
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (forthcoming)
2010
Monkey Puzzle Tree Club, Whitstable Satellite at the Whitstable Biennale
2008
Bridgette Ashton: Transition 8, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2007
Bridgette Ashton: New Prints & Mixed Media, Artonomy Fine Art, Cornwall
2005
I Dream of Europe, Russell-Cotes Museum & Art Gallery, Bournemouth (until 2006)
A Summerhouse for George Howard, installation at Scott’s Grotto, Ware, Herts
2000
Crowning Glory, Norwegian Church Gallery, Cardiff
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
LE GARAGE at Rencontre d'Arles Festival, France
Margate Subterranea with KCB, You Are Here Turner Contemporary, Margate
Monkey Puzzle Tree Club with KCB, Shorne Woods Country Park, Gravesend, Kent
Art Projects, London Art Fair, London with Miller Art Associates
2010
400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Ambulation, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Promenade II, Harlow Town Centre, Essex
2009
Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Mall Galleries, London
Wish You Were Here, Arts & Business, London
Salon des Favorites, Paris
2008
Print in Scotland, Park Gallery, Falkirk
2007
AA2A, Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth
Promenade, part of RIBA Architecture Week, Plymouth
2006
Unearth, Castle Gallery, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
The Artist & Print, Artonomy Fine Art, Truro
2005
Object & Still Life , Artonomy Fine Art, Truro
Insula Ovinium:2, Hogarth House, Chiswick, London
2004
Insula Ovinium , Rockhouse Gallery, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
Elemental Insight, Met Office, Exeter; then touring (until 2006)
2003
Waste Not Want Not, Recycling in British Art and Craft, Catmose Gallery, Rutland
2002
Handmade 2, Craftspace Touring, various venues, Staffordshire
2001
Beside the Seaside, Poole Museum, Dorset
2000
Transformations: the art of recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford (until 2002)
Bridgette's details were last updated on 7th Jul 2011
