South Quay Gallery & Learning Centre

Bridget Heriz enrolled at Goldsmiths College in 1973, later attending Ravensbourne College of Art and Design until 1977 when she returned to Suffolk  and established her practice while working at the Clock House Art Centre in Bruisyard. After many fruitful years in Suffolk she relocated to Southtown in Great Yarmouth in 2002 where she was able to set up her practice in a purpose built garden studio.  Increasingly eschewing the limelight  but having shown widely across East Anglia, she has also exhibited in London, most recently at the Saatchi Gallery with a touring exhibition curated by the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield.  As a member of the Bearing 090 Artists Group, her work has been displayed in Belgium, Finland and St Petersburg.

Bridget has supported and participated in numerous art projects over her many years of practice as well as teaching at various institutions on short part-time contracts, but studio work has been her constant priority. She is a sculptor who uses a variety of methods and materials both traditional and contemporary, and her highly individual, earthy and spirited approach to figurative sculpture is instantly recognisable as her own. Her work has been described as ‘elemental’ with a timeless essence, a sense of  embodied presence that permeates through and from structure and surface quality.