About

Bridgette Ashton is a multidisciplinary artist from the UK. She works in sculpture, ceramics, print and publications making objects, models, depictions and proposals engaging with histories and narratives, sites and locations. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in both solo and group exhibitions including Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; Space Station Sixty-Five, London; Auction House, Redruth; Russell Cotes Museum, Bournemouth; Transition Gallery, London & Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

Selected Exhibitions & Projects

2024                       
(upcoming) Artificialia, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall
(upcoming) Kaleidoscope, curated by Matt Retallick, Projects Twenty Two, Rock, Cornwall
2023                       
OCEAN: Bridgette Ashton, Mat Chivers & Stefanie Posavec, The Arts Instiute, Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth
Shaping Objects, ALMA, Barn Studios, Newquay
Some Fake Minerals & Fancy Plinths, ALMA, The Orchard, Newquay
Bridge The Tamar, Mirror, Plymouth
2022                       
BOP (Books On Photography) Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol
Bridgette Ashton Artificialia – Newlyn Art Gallery; Lostwithiel Museum & Auction House, Redruth
Artificialia digital, online exhibition
2021                       
Coxside Cartographies with Joanna Brinton, Project Space 1, Arts University Plymouth
Photobookshow, Biblioteka Space, London
Plymouth Contemporary, KARST gallery, Plymouth
2020                       
Coxside Cartographies with Joanna Brinton, Take A Part & The Box Plymouth
Picture Palace, Transition Two, London
2019                       
A Symbiotic Association, with Joanna Brinton & Alison Gill, Art Licks Weekend, London
Photobook Show K, Amber gallery-museum, Lithuania
2018                       
Worth’s Folly, for Plymouth Art Weekender
Last Days of The Dolphinarium, Urchins, Margate, Kent
Material Instincts, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
Standing Frame 18, Counter, Plymouth
2017
Only The World Remains: Bridgette Ashton & Nicole Mollett, Space Station Sixty-Five, London
2016

Inland Arts Festival, Cornwall: commissioned artist
The Photobook Exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens
Intercity 16, Intercity House, Plymouth Art Weekender
B-side Arts Festival, Portland, Dorset: commissioned artist
Europa, Transition Gallery, Hackney, London
2015
Bridgette Ashton: The Lost Cave, installation & performance, Cornwall
2014
The Kreuzung Archive, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth (2 person project)
Photobook Show F, Tokyo
On Landscape #1, Guest Projects, London
2013
Loddiges Miscellanea, Transition Gallery at Sutton House, Hackney, London
Margate Subterranea, CRATE, Margate (solo show)
2012
Monkey Puzzle Tree Club, KCB at the Whitstable Biennale Satellite
Frieze Fringe South West, Cornwall (solo show)
Bridgette Ashton: Don’t Throw It All Away (Our Love), Utrophia, Deptford, London (solo show)
2011
Bridgette Ashton: New Work, British Art Show 7, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Little Big Press at FotoLeggendo, Rome
The Deptford Biscuit, Deptford X, London (2 person project)
LE GARAGE at Rencontre d’Arles Festival, France
Art Projects, London Art Fair, London with Miller Art Associates
2010
Ambulation, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
Promenade II: Bridgette Ashton & Kitty Wingate, Harlow New Town, Essex
2009
Salon Des Favorites, Galerie des Favorites, Paris (3 person show)