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BRIDGIT ANDERSON – Christine’s Jewellery Box – 10 Oct–4 Nov, 2023

Curtain call, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 270 x 800mm, unF $2300, 295 x 825mm FR $2765 (SOLD 3 of 5)

Christine’s Jewellery Box is about the loss of my mother and a reclaiming of memories.

In 2018, I inherited my father’s garden.
Three years earlier he had said ‘my gardening days are over, do what you like and make it your own.’
In one corner sits a weather-beaten greenhouse.
Not just a place for my plants to thrive, this is also a refractive and dispersive ‘lightbox’;
a place where the ever changing weather and filtered light bring a jewel-like quality to
the world within.
I was seven years old when my mother Christine died suddenly, with no explanation given.
As a child I loved to wear her jewellery, an activity only permitted when my father wasn’t
around. These photographs contain objects from my childhood and others that were
given to my mother and then passed on to me.
At the time of her death I didn’t ask questions.
As I grew up it felt like an impossible task.
The freedom to look closely at what had been left behind came with the death of my father.

. The Youngest of the Youngest, December 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 270 x 337mm unF

Bridgit Anderson studied photography at the Ilam School of Fine Arts, UOC before moving to London in 1985, where she made
her home by the River Thames in Rotherhithe, just south of Tower Bridge. It was during this time that she developed a lifelong
interest in 19th century photographic processes and practice.

Link to available photographs

The garden is perfection, March 2022, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 780 x 1170mm unF Four sisters, Baby Christine, January 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 280 x 420mm A shared dream, April 2022, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 280 x 420mm Sparkle & Shine, April 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 520 x 780mm unF Whiskey & Soda, March 2022, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 520 x 780mm unF  Offspring, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 186 x 280mm unF Loved not wisely but too well, March 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 340 x 510mm unF When can we see her?, March 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 340 x 510mm Garden Diaries 1970 - 2018, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 280 x 420mm unF The Golden Hour, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 780 x 1170mm unF  Against bleak days we can't foresee, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 186 x 280mm unF  Stories told, April 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 340 x 510mm unF
Catalogue available for purchase $20

Link to available photographs