Bridgette Hickey

Bridgette (she/they) comes from blue mud earth tenders, people who prayed fiercely, with written words, hands-on bodies, with water and song, in dance and ecstatic expression. Her practice includes growing plants, archiving through prose, immersive installations, earth ceremony, quilting as a form of prayer, botanical dyeing, and facilitating story and grief circles in community. Bird’s practice is how she listens back to time, her body, and the many others here with her. Bridgette’s work explores fragmentation as map-making. She is influenced by her Black, Irish, and Nipmuc ancestral technologies, and a devotion to orienting her attention towards lifeways that protect life belonging by intimately honoring the dead and fragmented. Primarily her work is process-based, making to find out, making to listen, over stretches of time, and doing time-intensive craft following the natural world and its seasons Bridgette listens to the spirit of the process to find the form, in this way she creates across and beyond any particular discipline. Her practice is about world witnessing and building.