about
Bridget Catchpole is a Canadian multidisciplinary visual artist known for her art jewellery and sculptures made from marine debris, single use plastics, and beauty product packaging. She studied Fine Art at Concordia University (1998) in Montreal, QC and Jewellery Art and Design (1993) at Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, BC. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, and she is represented by the Craft Council of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC and Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, Montreal, QC. She lives on the unceded territory of the K’ómoks First Nation of Hornby Island, British Columbia.
artist statement
I am a plastic pollution eco-artist focusing on marine environments. My creative vision implicitly speaks to the human condition in how we consume, dispose of, and think about waste. For me, the process of taking garbage out of the waste stream and transforming it into meaningful and aesthetic art forms ultimately symbolizes the arduous yet necessary practice of healing our destructive and traumatized nature. This is the garbage inside us all. I want to show that small steps of recovery from trauma can be transformative, and collectively, our actions have the potential to reconsider our relationship with what we throw away.
