Winner of the 2023 Exploration Emerging Artist Award - Guest Solo. Bridget Hillebrand’s creative practice explores the deconstruction of the two-dimensional image plane and examines the materiality of physical and implied interruptions in constructed printed paper. Her recent works reflect on the fragility and changing ecology of oceans and river systems. She works mainly with large sheets of printed light weight washi papers and experiments with dimensional properties through the act of folding, tearing, layering and stitching