Our People
Bridgette Ashton
Lecturer
<p>Bridgette Ashton is an artist and part-time lecturer teaching on Arts University Plymouth's BA (Hons) Illustration programme. Her practice includes sculpture, ceramics, print and publications. She has exhibited in galleries and museums in both solo and group exhibitions in the UK and Europe.</p>
<p>Bridgette began teaching on <a href="https://www.aup.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate/ba-hons-illustration">BA (Hons) Illustration</a> at Arts University Plymouth in 2016 and is currently module leader for IL404 & IL503. </p>
<p>Research & Knowledge Exchange Outputs:</p><ul><li>ELIA Academy (‘Curiosity Incubator’ 2023 with Mel Brown). </li></ul>
<p><strong>Recent Exhibitions</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">2024 <br />Artificialia, Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, Cornwall<br />Kaleidoscope, curated by Matt Retallick, Projects Twenty Two, Rock, Cornwall<br /><br />2023 <br />OCEAN: Bridgette Ashton, Mat Chivers & Stefanie Posavec, The Arts Institute, Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth<br />Bridge The Tamar, Mirror, Plymouth<br /><br />2022 <br />Bridgette Ashton Artificialia – Newlyn Art Gallery; Lostwithiel Museum & Auction House, Redruth<br />Artificialia digital, online exhibition</p>
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<p><strong><br />Publications</strong></p>
<p>Some Fake Minerals & Fancy Plinths, newspaper poster publication commissioned by ALMA 2023<br /></p>
<p>Artificialia, exhibition catalogue with contributions from cultural historian Celeste Olaquiaga, & writer/critic Ben Street 2022</p>
<p>Coxside Cartographies with Joanna Brinton, Take A Part & The Box Plymouth 2020<br /><br />Worth’s Folly, by Bridgette Ashton 2018</p>
<p>Only the World Remains, exhibition catalogue with introduction by critic and author Sally O’Reilly and essay by historian David Coke. 2017</p>
<p>Garageland 21: Urban Ghosts (published by Transition Gallery) contributor 2017</p>
<p>103 Monkey Puzzle Trees of Kent, photobook by Bridgette Ashton 2012</p>
<p>Arty 31: Tainted Love (Published by Transition Gallery) featuring Bridgette Ashton: The Victoria Principal and Andy Gibb Story 2012</p>
<p>Margate Subterranea Volumes 1, 2 & 3, series of hand finished photo zines by Bridgette Ashton 2011-2014</p>
<p>Horses Animals Hunts Queen Mother Tall Ships, photobook by Bridgette Ashton & William Teakle. Introduction by Dr Carrie Pitzulo, additional written contribution from Prof. Whitney Davis. 2011</p>
<p>Plan, photobook by Bridgette Ashton & Kitty Wingate with contributions from Jeremy Gould and Darren Hayman 2010</p>
<p>I dream of europe, solo exhibition catalogue with contributions by Prof. G.J. Ashworth & Hazelle Jackson, 2005</p>
<p>Insula Ovinium, Volume 1, catalogue documentation of group exhibition, with contribution from Jenny Uglow 2004</p>
<p>Transformations, the Art of Recycling, Pitt Rivers Museum, catalogue, 2000</p>