26 year old Australian photographer Bridget Mac rose to prominence in 2010 winning the Australian National Portrait Gallery’s Youth Self Portrait prize with her image ‘Masculine Feminine’, having been a finalist for this competition also in 2009. In November 2010 she received the inaugural ‘Pool’ grant to pursue her present project of creating a series of portraits of artists, musicians and writers who worked in the former communist East Germany titled ‘Ost Artists’. Currently living and working in Berlin, Germany, she has also traveled to Iceland and Sicily in the last 8 months, taking photographs and further building her body of work. Mac is also currently working on a series of photocollages, an area of special interest, based on the built up cities of Sicily, as well as her abstract landscape photographs of Iceland entitled ‘Glas’.

She has exhibited in numerous group shows, most recently July 2011 in Washington DC, as well as her own Sydney solo shows ‘Collage’, and ‘Vacant’, a haunting series of photographs of deserted and decaying shops and businesses in Victoria and New South Wales all photographed on film. In May 2011 she was a finalist in the ‘Head On’ photographic portrait competition, running in Sydney at the Australian Centre of Photography. Symmetry and reflections are very important in Mac’s work and have appeared in natural and human made form throughout her practice, either pre-existing or created through analog and/or digital manipulation.

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