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AISHA BRIDGMAN
With Will Gompertz, at a private view of the Turner Prize, Tate Britain, 2018
BIO
Aisha Bridgman is known for her abstract paintings of imagined places and landscapes. Originally from Portsmouth, she now lives and works in Surrey, UK.
In recent years, Aisha reignited her painting career and in 2023, she completed a year of mentoring from Turps Art School. She was later selected by Tracey Emin to join TKE Studios as a professional studio member, but was unable to proceed.
Aisha will next be showing at the Mall Galleries in London. Her paintings have been shortlisted for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition in November.
Recent exhibitions include Blue Shop Gallery in London, Studio Cennen in Wales, The Lido Stores in Margate and through Art & People at Hollywood Road Gallery in London, where her paintings sold out. Aisha's paintings have been secured in numerous private collections within the UK, Europe, Asia and the US.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make acrylic paintings, which oscillate between non-representational, imagined landscapes and figurative abstraction. Beginning with a coloured ground and contrasting lines of ink, imagery emerge, as emotional responses to personal experience, memory or place arise.
My current series of moon soaked paintings, lean toward nocturnal scenes, offering stillness, introspection and a deep emotive connection.
Solitary figures are still or transparent, reflecting transience; the shifts experienced, when processing emotions on and off the canvas. My intention is for the viewer to escape into and explore these otherworldly landscapes, with their linear structures and off-kilter habitats.
CV
b. Portsmouth, England
Lives and works in Surrey, UK
Education
Turps Art School, Correspondence Course, 2022-2023
Chelsea College of Art, Digital Pattern Design & Print, 2013
University of Portsmouth, B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, 2.1, 2000-2003
10,000 word dissertation: The Importance of Abstract Expressionism, 2.1
Selected Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2021
Abstract paintings, Well & Good, Godalming, UK
Group Exhibitions
2024
ING Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK (15 to 24 November)
2023
Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Gallery, online
The Wild Thought, The Lido Stores, Margate, UK
2022
Precious Postcards, Hollywood Road Gallery, London, UK
Tree of Life, Studio Cennen, Wales, UK
2021
Affordable Art, Laura Long Contemporary, online
2020
Lockdown, Fronteer Art, online
2007
Charity silent auction, Christie’s, London, UK
2003
Graduate show, Portsmouth, UK
2001
Half Way House, shortlisted by Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Achievements
2023
Selected by Tracey Emin from an international open call, to join TKE Studios as a professional studio member
Charitable Donations
2022
Donated 25% of painting sales to FoodCycle, through Art & People
Donated 100% of painting sales to the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal
2020
Donated 100% from a painting sale to BLAM, Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health