About

Bridget Catchpole is a queer identified visual artist with a practice in contemporary art jewellery and sculpture. She lives on the unceded territory of the K'ómoks First Nation of Hornby Island, BC. For more than 10 years, her works are a material exploration of plastic's worth and waste. She uses post-consumer plastics and found marine debris to explore the personal and cultural biases of a perceived worthless material and the disastrous impacts this perception has impacted on the planet's biosphere. These self-harvested materials become a departure point for broader topics of repair not replace, as well as a partiality involving worth and waste, blurring notions of what is precious, valuable and lasting. She received her jewellery training at the Vancouver Jewellery Art and Design Program and has a BFA in Studio Art at Concordia University, Montreal. Catchpole has been the recipient of project/research grants from the Canada Council for the Arts as well as the British Columbia Arts Council and has been featured in solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally.

Craft Types

• Jewellery
• Sculpture

Tags

• Bracelet
• Brooch
• Earrings
• Experimental
• Gold
• Men
• Necklace
• Pendant
• Resin
• Ring
• Semiprecious Stone
• Silver
• Upcycled
• Wall Piece
• Women

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