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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 $1000 unframed, 295 x 365 F $1420 (SOLD 2 of 5)

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.

The garden is perfection, March 2022, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 780 x 1170mm unF $3000, 860 x 1250mm FR $4300 Four sisters, Baby Christine, January 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 280 x 420mm unF $1000, 305 x 445mm FR $1400 A shared dream, April 2022, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 280 x 420mm unF $1000, 305 x 445mm FR $1400 (SOLD 1 of 5) Sparkle & Shine, April 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 520 x 780mm unF $2300, 595 x 850mm FR $3100 Whiskey & Soda, March 2022, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 520 x 780mm unF $2300, 595 x 850mm FR $3100 Offspring, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 186 x 280mm unF $600, 215 x 305mm FR $940 (SOLD 1 of 5) Loved not wisely but too well, March 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 340 x 510mm unF $1400 unframed, 365 x 535mm FR $1850 (SOLD 1 of 5) When can we see her?, March 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 340 x 510mm, $1400 unframed, $1850 framed Garden Diaries 1970 - 2018, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 280 x 420mm unF $1000, 305 x 445mm FR $1400 (SOLD 1 of 5) The Golden Hour, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 780 x 1170mm unF $3000, 860 x 1250mm FR $4300 Against bleak days we can't foresee, May 2021, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 186 x 280mm unF $600, 215 x 305mm FR $940 Stories told, April 2023, archival pigment ink on paper, edition of 5, 340 x 510mm unF $1400 unframed, 365 x 535mm FR $1850 (SOLD 4 of 5)
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