Artist: Cheryl Bridgart

ARTIST BIO:

Cheryl, a multifaceted artist, recognized internationally for freestyle machine embroidery and tailored designer Art to Wear. With degrees in fine art she has exhibited, taught, and collected in USA, UK, NZ, Japan, Vietnam, Russia, and all over Australia and soon the Moon.

She is honoured as she is the only embroidery artist chosen worldwide to be sent to the Art Museum on the dark side of the Moon.

Last 4 years a Finalist in The Australian National Textile/Fibre Art Awards, a Finalist in SALA Awards in 2023, Portrait Art Prizes (the only embroidery selected) and numerous others.

Cheryl is prolific and has a themed solo exhibition of about 45 new artworks every year.

With esteemed honor Cheryl embroidered Hieu Van Le AC the 35th Governor of SA portrait in front of an audience whilst being filmed for TV.

No computers, photos, projectors are used to create her original labour-intensive embroidered art, it is immediate and spontaneous with millions of stitches & 100‘s of hours on each with no room for error.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

“This collection of rich tactile narratives, each with a silver moon in the sky, celebrates the human condition of belonging to place and inclusion.

I have responded directly with nature by sketching on my journey through McLaren Vale and the Fleurieu. To my home in Goolwa

Interpreting these sketches entirely with stitch and thread. I move canvas under a still needle and feel like I’m drawing again. Free and spontaneous like the rhythm and movement of the passing landscape, as I stitch and play with line, colour, texture, space, form, and depth.

Each figurative landscape and thoughtful stitch tell a tale of intention, concepts, and the story of making, Mysterious, dreamy faces become part of the landscape as I continue to find inspiration in nature’s beauty and how humans connect and interact and should participate to shape a sustainable future for all.”

CHERYL BRIDGART EXHIBITING ARTWORK FOR SALE: