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bridiefitzgeraldphoto@gmail.com

Bridie Fitzgerald is a multidisciplinary artist working and creating in Naarm, so-called Australia.

Working across several mediums of analogue lens-based creating including alternative printing large format, and 8mm media works. Her practice seeks to identify themes of place and personhood as she navigates her own understanding of her surroundings, and how she fits into the narrative of belonging in one’s own space.

Fitzgerald’s work stems from feelings of both familiarity and unfamiliarity in the world around her. As she navigates her impermanence in the world, her work makes those feelings of uncertainty tangible - seeking beauty in the mundane to comfort these anxieties. Capturing still texture, holding the moment, looking closer, and indulging in the fervour of just being, Making sense of an ever-changing world and the obstacles that come from within a society that has become devoid of an augmented understanding.

Seeking to identify place and personhood through traditional photographic processes. She focuses predominantly on the relationship between our native flora and fauna, and her personal experiences growing up and creating in so-called Australia. Working in a film developing lab over the past few years has informed Fitzgerald’s practice regarding manual developing and alternative printing techniques. This has established a newfound appreciation for the artist's incorporation in the developing process an evocation of which intermingles interests in environmental sciences and creative photography; using traditional printing processes to weave found objects and flora from the spaces she inhibits and practice within into a visually interactive space. All this while treading lightly as a settler on a land that is not her own to claim and rejecting familiar domestic customs.