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Artist Statement
Bronwyn Kidd is a collaborative expressionist from Naarm / Melbourne who, informed by an international career working with models to promote high fashion, now weaves a vivid cloth of memory, womanhood and community. Layering digital and analogue photography of danceperformance, and in costumed portraiture, she represents her subjects’, and her own, journey toward new identity radiating a mature resolution in calm and unity.
In love with classicism, Bronwyn's observational lens projects a cinema of past, present, and future, morphing remembrance with discovery. Her works are collected in London’s National Portrait Gallery; and exhibitions at Monash Gallery of Art (2008); National Gallery of Victoria (2016); MARS Gallery (2023)
Theme: EMBER
Through Her Breath celebrates ancestral breath, placing women — whose bodies are the source of our first breaths — as the inscribers of embodied legacies across time. Inspired by the feminist philosophy of Luce Irigaray, the work embraces the idea that, intergenerationally, a corporeal archive is passed down through our mothers’ bodies. Women become the thread, the custodians, and the channels of an archive of lived and embodied memory.
Through the interplay of light, gesture, and atmosphere, the landscape and its reflection mirrors the rhythms of breath and the cycles of life, evoking the shared pulse between the human and the elemental. It becomes a corporeal space of remembrance — an archive of presence — where body, breath, and earth converge. Through Her Breath is an awakening — a deepened contemplation of woman, memory, and community — expressed through the layering of photography, dance, and fashion, and viewed through a feminine lens.
— Bronwyn Kidd, Frankston South, Victoria
