The Bridge Prize 2025

Highly Commended for The Bridge Prize in 2025

Created for the inaugural Bridge Art Prize (2025), this work engages with the redevelopment of the Bridgewater Bridge in Tasmania. The project invited artists to respond to the bridge as both infrastructure and symbol—connecting communities while marking a significant moment of transition within the landscape.

In the Balance was awarded Highly Commended, recognising its exploration of material process and conceptual response to place.

The work developed through an iterative process of layering and disruption. Mokulito prints were produced separately and then physically integrated into the composition, allowing for shifts between printed and drawn marks. Surfaces were repeatedly adjusted—built up and partially removed—to create a sense of tension and instability.

 

Bridge Art Prize Finalists Exhibition
New Norfolk, Tasmania
April 2025

This work sits within an ongoing practice exploring place, process, and the shifting nature of built and remembered environments.

 

Artists Statement:

Vision, ingenuity, memory, connection.

A portal to the other side.

Transformation as we pass beneath the old; an altar to the Industrial Age. A tunnel-wrap of steel ribs and buttresses.

The new; a monumental structure, a warm grey curve arching across the water, seemingly floating above the Bridgewater Jerry.

We look for the swans as we hang in the balance.