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Painting in the studio

Studio time, 2025

Aisha Bridgman bio photo October 2022

Studio, 2022

Paul Carey-Kent with my paintings

Paul Carey-Kent, selector of my paintings
Private view, Mall Galleries, 2024

Will Gompertz and Aisha Bridgman at the Turner Prize, Tate Britain

With Will Gompertz
Turner Prize private view, Tate Britain, 2018

Bio

Aisha Bridgman is best 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.

In 2024, her work had to take a bit of a back seat due to personal challenges, however Aisha later exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London, where her paintings were selected by Paul Carey-Kent.  

Previous 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 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.

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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, selected by Paul Carey-Kent

 

2023, Works on Paper 5, Blue Shop Gallery, online 

2023, The Wild Thought, The Lido Stores, Margate, UK

 

2022, Precious Postcards, Hollywood Road Gallery, London, UK

2022, 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

2024, Artwork feature Painting of the Day, Contemporary British Painting online

2024, Joint winner of Jackson's Art competition, gifted Michael Harding's latest oil paint set 

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

2022, 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

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aisha@aishabridgman.com | United Kingdom
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