The David Roche Foundation wonderful Embroidery Exhibition was held in The House Museum Melbourne St, North Adelaide.     The exhibition at The David Roche Foundation, Embroidery: Oppression to Expression showcased over 100 exquisite embroideries from 1600 to the present day. Due to the fragile nature of textiles, many of the works on display had never been exhibited before.   A major survey of embroidery practices, featuring exquisite embroideries from across four centuries, embracing contemporary textile practice […]

               “Twisted k-Not” Finalist AFAA 2021 72 x 122 cm silk cotton metallic thread    Artwear Publications, The Embroiderers Guild of NSW, Gallery 76 and Gentle Roller Company sponsored the inaugural biennial Australian Fibre Art Award this was open to any artists in Australia with a requirement that the work had to be produced from a fibre (it excluded using fabric as the basis of the artwork). Artworks created from […]

   Cheryl is very privileged to be one of 8 artists to be asked to exhibit at Adelaide Airport to celebrate the opening of South Australia borders.             Cheryl Bridgart’s  achievement is not just a gallery of compelling finished art. It is a progress, in which her first drawings, paintings and sewn childhood pictures have developed and now have a formative place in homes and galleries around Australia and the […]

Cheryl was runner up in the 2019 Gallery M Contemporary and this year she was a finalist again with her unique  artwork.       ‘Fragmented’ 102x 92cm (thread acrylic and canvas) Artist statement Cheryl best known as a freehand machine portrait artist but is versatile in a range of mediums she moved from embroidering the Governor’s portrait live on TV to COVID. She normally either paints draws or embroiderers but never on the same […]

There have been four RSASA Portrait Prizes. Cheryl has the distinction of being the only artist using textiles as their medium to be a finalist in any of the four competitions. Cheryl has been finalist in all four of them. This year she was successful with her embroidered entry “Self Portrait Past Present and Future” again it is thread only   Cheryl celebrating her success again!