Dr Bridget Hillebrand is an interdisciplinary artist based in Naarm/Melbourne – Wurundjeri Woi-warrung Country, Australia. She completed her PhD project Climbing the landscape: Mt Arapiles – explorations in place and the printed image, at Monash University. Her visual research explores the relationship between the physicality of making images as a response to the corporeal dimension of the experience of place. Her artworks have developed through a variety of forms including print, artist books, audio, video, art objects and installations. Her recent projects reflect upon human impact on shifting ecological systems.
Bridget has received a number of awards including winner of the 2021 Experimental Print Prize at Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria. In 2024 she was appointed the Australian Commissioner for the 12th Ulsan International Print Festival in South Korea. In November 2024, her installation ‘River’ was exhibited at the Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy. Her work is represented in major public, and private collections in Australia and internationally including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery; State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; Monash University Library Rare Books, Melbourne; RMIT University, Melbourne; Arts Victoria; Print Council of Australia, Melbourne; Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria; Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria; Museum of Art and Culture Lake Macquarie, NSW; Mackay Regional Council, Queensland; Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Spain; Printmaking Collective Workshop, Chicago, USA; Brooklyn Art Library, New York, USA; Belfast Print Workshop, Ireland; Limerick Printmakers Studio and Gallery, Ireland; London Print Studio, United Kingdom; Edinburgh Print Studios, United Kingdom; University of West England Bristol, United Kingdom; Glasgow Print Workshop, Scotland; Chang Mai Contemporary Art Museum, Thailand; Chang Mai University, Thailand and Silpakorn University, Bangkok.
I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation as traditional custodians of the land where I live and work and pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.