'Slip' by Noah Bridger

19 May 2026 - 12 Jun 2026
11:00am - 05:00pm
FREE
First Site Gallery | Storey Hall Basement, 344 Swanston Street, Melbourne

'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.

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.

Noah Bridger, 'Stony Town', 2025. Image courtesy of the artist.

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'Slip' by Noah Bridger