Gayle Bridge

FINE ARTS • SCULPTOR • CERAMICS
Materials • Process • Ideas

The creative process alternates between feeling and reasoning …

It is not “pottery making” that is essentially interesting to me but rather clay as the medium of choice to explore sculptural form, to tap the archetypal, and create an historical connection to the past – a human link in a very long chain of humanity.

Octopus 2020 - 2021

The Octopus Vase from Palaikastro, Crete, c1500 BC displayed in The Museum at Heraklion, Crete ( height 11 inches) became the catalyst for the research at the National Research Library in Singapore, between December 2019 and March 2020.

Recent Works

Homage to Basho

Overland Club Exhibition 2011 at FLOW restaurant gallery HCMC Vietnam. Basho” – a traveler and writer of haiku. Since early times travelers have kept diaries of their journeys. When Basho travelled he wrote haiku. He lived the life of a poet ...

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Cau Mau Shipwreck– 2010

This work refers to the shipwreck known as the Cau Mau shipwreck, 1735. Salvaged in 1998 off the coast of Vietnam. A Chinese junk sank at the farthest point in the South China Sea as a result of a fire on board the vessel.

Work Experience & Exhibitions

Tertiary teaching in Visual Arts NZ, and at Universities in China & Vietnam, accompanied by various exhibitions, awards and recognitions.