This work explores the transformative role the artist plays in the poetic reimaging of a city that is gentler on the body. Bridger transposes the site of casting, with all its slippages, failures and discards, into the gallery itself. His work is inspired by the alchemy of the foundry and the waterways which weave throughout the city, sites which imagine material poetics that erode the rigidity of the city’s stones. Inspired by the history of the city’s close connection to bluestone, he creates a space that informs a material linkage back to the origins of place.
Please join us to celebrate the opening of this exhibition at First Site Gallery, 5– 7pm, Wednesday 20 May.
Noah Bridger is multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, writing, video and installation. He is completing a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University and has studied and worked as an Industrial Designer since 2019.
Bridger has exhibited in group shows at Monash Art, Design and Architecture (MADA), (2022), BLINDSIDE Gallery (2025), Mixed Zoning (2025), Site8 (2025) and extensively across RMIT. In 2025, he has exhibited site-specific public works: Beeswax, Bluestone and Redbrick, Beeswax in Melbourne.
In 2022, he completed a Bachelor of Industrial Design at Monash University and won the 'Highly Commended’ award, for his graduating project Ponder, in the ‘MADA Now’ program. Bridger currently works as a Fabricator and Industrial Designer for Reef Design Lab. Here he has contributed to the creation of public works and commissions for international collections.
Thumbnail and banner image: Noah Bridger, Stony Town, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.
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'Portable Stillness' (2025), is an ongoing spatial installation that explores how the making of miniature objects and floating altar-like displays can express memory, collection, and the domestic in transition. Motivated by the instability of diasporic living and continual relocation, Ko Jou Chen constructs handmade structures that carry memory and presence across her shifting environments.
'Slip' is a practice-led research project that explores the poetic qualities of the bluestones that have been discarded in recent construction works around RMIT University. Through the process of moulding and casting these stones into beeswax, Noah Bridger hopes to reimagine Melbourne’s urban landscape.
Chloe Rose Thomas’ exhibition, 'Can I Hold You?' centres on queer community and embodied practices of care, exploring what it means to take traditional photographic portraits of non-normative bodies and the histories they represent.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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