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Welcome!
I'm Bridie Keogh, an award-winning Irish abstract artist exhibiting internationally. I make statement art - layered, textured, unique originals and limited edition prints.
The kind of art that outlasts every trend.
Art has the power to stop people
Not in a passive, decorative way but genuinely stop them. Make them look twice. Pull them out of whatever they were thinking about and into the work in front of them.
That's what I make. Paintings that demand attention, prints that reveal something new every time you look, work that earns its place on the wall rather than just filling it.
I've been driven by this since I studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. The belief that art should do something to the person standing in front of it. That belief hasn't changed. Only the medium has.
The Long Way Back
When I chose to pursue art as a career, the concerns about practicality were loud.
After Edinburgh College of Art I spent a decade in the VFX industry, eventually at Framestore, one of the world's leading visual effects companies. When global productions shut down - twice in 4 years - due to covid and actor/writer strikes, the industry contracted, I found myself at a crossroads.
I decided not to wait for an industry to recover and decide my fate again. I picked up a paintbrush and started building something that belonged entirely to me.
From Sculpture to Paint
I studied at Edinburgh College of Art, juggling three jobs to fund my final degree show. In 2013 I received the RSA New Contemporaries Award and exhibited at the National Galleries of Scotland - one of the most significant galleries in Scotland.
Years later, returning to painting after a decade away, I found enamel. The metal surface behaves differently to canvas; it holds detail in a particular way, responds to paint and mark-making unexpectedly. Experimenting with it I developed a process that melds control and spontaneity, building layers of acrylic, ink and latex alongside deliberate and loose brushwork.
The tools. The brush. The wash. Each mark responding to the one before it.
Six cities. One year
In the first year of sharing my work publicly I gained representation by two international galleries and exhibited in six shows across Europe and the United States - Madrid, Milan, Brussels, New York, Barcelona and London.
In September 2024 I received the Women in Art Excellence Award at the Women in Art Biennale London, presented by Artio Gallery at Chelsea Old Town Hall, recognising outstanding achievement and impact in the visual arts.
From the Studio
Today I work from my studio in Ireland, making original paintings on enamelware and limited edition prints that are collected internationally.
Whether you're drawn to an original, one of a kind, made to command a room or a open/limited edition print that reveals something new every time you look, the work is made with the same intention. To stop you. To stay with you.
What Comes Next
The work is growing. New collections are forming, new exhibitions are coming, and the collector community around the work is expanding.
If you've found your way here, you're already part of that. I make art for people who want something unique on their wall - art that means something, that surprises them, that they'd genuinely miss if it wasn't there.
I'd love for the work to find its way to you.
FAQs
Quick answers to common questions about my work.
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