“Printing on engineering felt and large sheets of washi paper I experiment with dimensional properties through the act of folding, tearing, layering and stitching. The interplay of repetitive printed marks suggest refraction of light on water, protected in the gentle folds of floating paper, cradled and held.”

– Bridget Hillebrand

“Deeply inquisitive about the natural world, Bridget Hillebrand produces bodies of work that converse with ecological systems and reflect upon human impact. They are not strident: her works gently whisper themselves into nuanced territories between the physical and immaterial worlds. Call it divine, mystical, transcendent. Whatever the case, this meditative between-space has the qualities of something with which all humans are deeply connected. Water: soft, powerful, and brimming with vitality.”

– Andrew Stephens (Excerpt from catalogue essay)

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 Experimental Print Prize (2021) at Castlemaine Art Museum, Victoria. In 2024 she was appointed the Australian Commissioner for the 12th Ulsan International Print Festival in South Korea. Her site-specific installation ‘River’ was exhibited at Arsenale Nord in Venice, Italy for the 19th edition of the Arte Laguna Prize (2024) and at the University of Québec in Trois-Rivières, Canada as part of IMPACT13 conference in October 2025. Her most recent large-scale immersive installation ‘Into the Deep’ was shown at Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria in September 2025. 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; Maroondah City Council, 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; Maiiam 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.