What Jessica Bridgfoot has planned for Bendigo

Announced as incoming Director of Bendigo Art Gallery, Jessica Bridgfoot has a clear vision for growing the gallery, despite her frightening start with the gallery.

14 Jun 2019 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

New Director of Bendigo Art Gallery Jessica Bridgfoot; image supplied.

As a teenager Jessica Bridgfoot remembers being ‘simultaneously seduced and terrified’ by a John Brack painting hanging at Bendigo Art Gallery.

This week she may hold a different view on the painting, having been named incoming Director of the Gallery. A local to Bendigo she said the gallery was pivotal to growing up in regional Victoria.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina