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About the Artist
David Bridgeman

b. 1959

Born in Oxford, Bridgeman acquired a BEd (Hons) at Worcester College of Higher Education and moved to the Cayman Islands in 1987 to teach. As a professional artist, he has received important commissions from the Cayman Islands Government and from the Cayman National Cultural Foundation. His work is in private collections and the public collections of CNCF, CINM, NGCI as well as at the Governor’s Residence. He is a founding member of the Cayman art collective C4. NGCI exhibitions include: Anchored in Landscapes (2005) and Arreckly: Towards a Cultural Identity (2007), Art of Assemblage (2013), The Road Not Taken (solo show, 2014), Metamorphoses (2014), tIDal Shift: Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art (2015), All Access (2015), Upon the Seas (2017), Mediating Self (2017), Cross Currents – 1st Cayman Islands Biennial (2019), and Tropical Visions (2019).

Featured Works

Structures

David Bridgeman
2005

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Rain Gauge

David Bridgeman
2007

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Close to the Bark

David Bridgeman
2010

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Related Exhibitions

15-3 Jun Oct 2019

Tropical Visions

Landscape Painting from the National Collection
30-23 Jun Sep 2017

Mediating Self

Identity and the Body
20-22 Jan Jun 2017

Upon The Seas

An Exhibition from the Maritime Series
13-3 Jul Sep 2015

All Access

A journey through the National Collection
10-5 Sep Nov 2015

tIDal Shift

Explorations of Identity in Contemporary Caymanian Art
22-2 May Sep 2014
10-29 May Aug 2013

Related News

28 July 2021

Reimagined Futures – Curators on Artists: William Helfrecht with David Bridgeman and Leonard Dilbert

NGCI Collections Coordinator William Helfrecht speaks to David Bridgeman and Leonard Dilbert about their collaborative…...

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