Bridget Bailey makes artworks and sculptures that combine intricate making with the down-to-earth approach to life and death of an allotment gardener. They investigate aspects of nature from the growth-rhythm in a tangle of grass to the particular posture of a dead butterfly’s legs.
Finding a ‘making language’ to describe alive and growing, or dead and still, needs very different approaches. Showing variety in thinking as well as materials brings a level of diversity appropriate to her subject matter.

Millinery is an integral part of Bridget's ‘making language’ and her personal heritage as a maker. In this exhibition she explores this by making an artwork using millinery-thinking, and giving a talk about her pathway from millinery to art.