On canvas or paper I work in pastels, acrylics, graphite, charcoal and oils. Anything that will make a mark really. I will look at a subject and consider which media would suit it best to achieve the visual effect I'm after. Presently I am working on images for 2012 Painters of the Flinders Ranges 11th Annual Exhibition and pieces for the Burra and Port Pirie Regional Art Galleries South Australia, the 2012 Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize as well as other art competitions. I have exhibited my works in the US and Australia and they are in collections in Australia, the US, Canada and Europe. In between doing my paintings, I am an artist who teaches Visual Art & Design in Secondary Schools.
I can remember watching my mother and older sister producing wondrous images while sitting at the kitchen table painting in oil paints on large sheets of stiff paper. I must have been small as I could just see over the edge of the table. I was later given a set of paints to play with, so I wouldn't bother the adults I suspect but I didn't paint the walls or floors oh no, paper was the proper place to create art! Although I did like to paint with my whole hand occasionally as the squishy paint felt so good between your fingers as it made little worms as it oozed out.
I continued to paint, draw, make squishy things and eventually made a career out of it as a 'serious' artist.
Prior to gaining my post graduate degree in Education in 2008, my under graduate degree in Visual Communications (Graphic Design) 2002, from the University of South Australia allowed me to work as a production assistant on a Rural Newspaper. I moved to Melbourne for two years to take advantage of employment. While there, I was employed as an in-house Graphic Designer and did some freelance and contract work. I returned to Adelaide to as a graphic/pre-press supervisor and as graphic design manager for an advertising and marketing company.
The pressures of fast turnover, working to a client brief, outsourcing and deadlines are all too familiar to me. My work has ranged from the layout of a full colour historical reference book to point of sale displays, flyers, promotional items, brochures, packaging, advertising displays and even stickers and business cards. I have experience with pre-press and production, offset and digital printing and photography, as well as experience with many imaging and publishing programs for print and web.
With Regards
Kay Bridge
Artist Curriculum Vitae Kay Bridge
2011 Finalist in The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize
Camberwell Rotary Art Exhibition Victoria
“Revealed X” The Painters of the Flinders Range – Wilpena Pound
Member - The Painters of the Flinders RangesMember - Pastel Artists of South Australia (PASA)Member - Australian Guild of Realist Artists (AGRA)
Teaching Art & Design in Secondary Schools in South Australia
2010
Member - Royal South Australia Society of Arts (RSASA)
Member - The Painters of the Flinders Ranges
Member - Pastel Artists of South Australia
Teaching Art & Design in Secondary Schools in South Australia
2009
Member - Royal South Australia Society of Arts (RSASA)Member - The Painters of the Flinders RangesMember - Pastel Artists of South Australia
Teaching Art & Design in Secondary Schools in South Australia
“Revealed VIII” The Painters of the Flinders Range – Wilpena Pound
2008
Graduated with Bachelor of Education (Art/Design and Technology) UniSa
Member - Royal South Australia Society of Arts (RSASA)
Member - The Painters of the Flinders Ranges
Member - Pastel Artists of South Australia
2007
Teaching Art & Design in Secondary Schools in South Australia
“Revealed VI” The Painters of the Flinders Range – Wilpena Pound
Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show
Member - The Painters of the Flinders Ranges
Member - Royal South Australia Society of Arts (RSASA)
Unley About Art - Fullarton Art Centre
2006
Sala Exhibition – “The Arts of Doyle” - Old Dairy Gallery Murray Bridge
Post graduate Bachelor of Education studies at UniSA
Member – East Torrens Community Arts Assn. Inc
Member - 'Artists Voice' Professional artists group in Hahndorf
Member - Royal South Australia Society of Arts (RSASA)
2005
Started Wildu Design - Art Graphic Design Business
Victor Harbor Rotary Art Show
2001-2007
Working as a graphic designer in Adelaide and Melbourne
2001
Visual Communication (Graphic Design) Degree South Australian School of Art - UniSa
Certificate of Commendation – Australian Design, Australian Book Plate Design Award - 2001 Keith Wingrove Memorial Trust
Certificate of Commendation – Graphic Print Design, Australian Book Plate
Design Award 2001 Keith Wingrove Memorial Trust
Finalist-Peter Lehmann Queen of Clubs Wine label competition, South Australia
2000
Exhibition Committee Member Top of the Torrens art gallery – Birdwood
Member Gawler Art Society
1999
Unley About Art Exhibition – Unley
1998
Seas Art Exhibition - Noarlunga South Australia
Moved to South Australia
1997
Art Exhibition “The Framing Place” Kempsey NSW
International Womens Day Art Exhibition
Port Macquarie Heritage Art Award – NSW
Coffs Harbour City Art Exhibition NSW
Golden Helmut Awards International Cartooning Exhibition – Yugoslavia
Expression Session Art Exhibition Kempsey
Cert IV - Craft & Visual Art Business Practice
Committee Member - Mid North Coast Arts Council
1996
Coffs Harbour City Art Exhibition NSW
International Womens Day Art Exhibition (Highly Commended) - Kempsey NSW
Port Macquarie Heritage Art Award – NSW
Airbrushing tutor – Kempsey TAFE NSW
1995
International Womens Day Art Exhibition - Kempsey NSW
Kempsey Country Music Festival Art Exhibition (Highly Commended)
Art-walk Kempsey NSW
Freelance graphic artist for local printers and sign writers on the Mid North Coast NSW, had my own business, KFXart, tutored in airbrushing, specialised in portraiture — people & animals
1994
Diploma of Cartooning and Illustration
Member of the Black and White Artists Club