Bridie McKelvey is a visual artist and graphic designer living and working on Bundjalung Country, specifically the idyllic surrounds of the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia. She has a passion for discarded objects and collected treasures. Bridie’s assemblages, collages and signature dioramas represent a small escape from life’s hectic and sometimes harsh realities. Her work takes seemingly mundane objects transforming them into intricate reimagined landscapes.

A self-confessed maximalist and hoarder at heart, Bridie works with materials from her own cherished and extensive collections gathered and gifted from near and far. Pieces are created with artefacts that date back years, some even decades. Each individual element has its own story, its own history.

Favoured materials include paper, tins, toys, beads, threads, old books, paper, found objects, wire and pressed flowers, that are applied with repetition throughout her work - continually toying with colour, balance and texture, and delivering on an objective that is purely decorative and designed to delight.

Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Out of the Woods” – Gallery 3 (Byron Bay)

Group Exhibitions
2023 “Take Stock TAKE 2” – DADAA Gallery (Freemantle, WA)
2023 “Birds 3” - Gallery 3 (Byron Bay)
2023 “Take Stock” – Gallery 3 (Byron Bay)
2022 “Birds” - Gallery 3 (Byron Bay)
2019 “TIN” - Northern Rivers Community Gallery (Ballina)
2004 “Typo” - 26 large external panels of the Wollongong Art Gallery
2003/4 “Senses” - Touring Exhibition for selected works from Graduates across NSW
2003 “Generate” - Graduate Exhibition for Graphic Design West Wollongong TAFE
1992 “Timing” Graduate Exhibition for Associate Diploma of Visual Art Armidale TAFE