Bridget is a children’s chaplain and a practical theology research student with an interest in children’s spirituality and the natural world. Bridget’s first exhibition is a reflection and reworking some childhood memories. She says: Essentially, I am a collector, a curator of things. I am learning to embrace both my neurodiversity and my shame of being a child of apartheid to South Africa. This is a journey of a lifetime. I have always collected things that hold my feelings, thoughts and ideas; constantly playing, rearranging and sorting them into different iterations. As I orbit in daisy chain reflections around these ideas and feelings, I grow in the knowledge that I am loved, flawed, beautiful, imperfect, unique, fragile, and strong. I see the world we inhabit and us as people like this too. Wonderful, glorious, and loved in all our imperfections. It is my hope that this exhibition might encourage others to embrace the power of crafts as a way of storytelling. We might also touch the heart of creator God as we playfully create and grow in wonder. 

'This art exhibition is happening in the month I turn 60. It is an acknowledgement of how far I have come over the years with help from God, family, friends, coworkers, and the communities I have inhabited. The artwork I made as a child and teenager is reflectively reinterpreted through my recent installations. I look at how we collect and process stories and objects through play and craft. This exhibition focuses on neurodiversity and touches on white privilege.'