Bridie Gillman

With her childhood spent in Indonesia, Gillman, in her work, references ideas of place and notions of belonging. Pink room, pink womb was made in response to the artist’s experience of an eighteenth-century bedroom in Arraiolos, Portugal, where she spent a month in 2023. She became obsessed by the pink walls, watching the colours shift dramatically throughout the day. She felt that the room held her during an uncertain time. ‘Pink room pink womb’, she would say to herself, invoking an embodied maternal presence. Similar in scale to the doorway into the room, the paintings act as a portal for exploring the different aspects of the walls: the cool morning, warm afternoon glow and the dark dusty corners. Pink room/Pink womb features a soundscape made in collaboration with Reuben Schafer.