Halfway Home: Bridie McKelvey
April 11 @ 6:00 pm - June 8 @ 4:00 pm
A solo exhibition of delightful and whimsical assemblages and dioramas representing a small escape from life’s hectic and sometimes harsh realities. Bridie McKelvey’s work takes seemingly mundane objects transforming them into intricate reimagined landscapes. Favoured materials include paper, tins, toys, beads, threads, old books, paper, found objects, wire and pressed flowers, that are applied with repetition throughout her work – continually toying with colour, balance and texture, and delivering on an objective that is purely decorative and designed to delight.
Now based in the Northern Rivers, Bridie McKelvey grew up and attended high school in Armidale. McKelvey has studied visual arts and graphic design and has participated in several group exhibitions in NSW.
Credit: Bridie McKelvey, Owl and flowers, n.d., mixed media assemblage. Courtesy the artist.
