Bridie Gillman is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing from her childhood spent in Indonesia, ideas of place - our experience and memories of a place - underpin her work. Gillman completed her Bachelor of Fine Art with Honours at the Queensland College of Art in 2013. Since graduating she has conducted residencies and exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, and in 2019 won the Moreton Bay Region Art Award. In addition to her practice, Gillman is co-director of STABLE, a contemporary art space in Brisbane as well as a co-director of BEAUT (Brisbane and Elsewhere Art Un-Triennial).
Gillman’s work has been curated into group and solo shows such as ‘Brisbane Art Design’, Museum of Brisbane (2019); ‘Before the Leaves Turn’, SCAPE at Studio 125 Gallery, Christchurch (2019); ‘Breathing Room’, Cement Fondu, Sydney (2019); ‘looking here looking north’, Casula Powerhouse Sydney (2019); ‘After’, Innerspace Contemporary, Brisbane (2017); ‘Woven’, Verge Gallery, Sydney (2017); ‘AusAsia’, MetroArts Brisbane (2016); ‘From Here’, Spiro Grace Artrooms, Brisbane (2016); ‘You and I, we’ve got the same blood running through us’, CutThumb, Brisbane (2016); ‘Round Island Tour’, Run Amok Gallery, Malaysia (2015); ‘The height of a mountain, the width of a valley’, Metro Arts, Brisbane (2015); ‘The moment something is understood it begins to be forgotten’, Blindside, Melbourne (2015); ‘Blue Monaro’, The Walls Artspace, Gold Coast (2015); ‘Moonbird’, Gallery Ten, Hobart (2015); ‘Day-Day! [dédé]’, Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (2014); ‘Air’, 107 Projects, Sydney; ‘Crossing borders: video art, place and identity’, The Hold Artspace, Brisbane (2013); and ‘Arus Balik’, Sanggar Bangun Budaya, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
