IMMERSED
BRIDGIT THOMAS
IMMERSED New paintings, prints & ceramics by Bridgit Thomas January 12 - February 2, 2026
Salt Contemporary 33-35 Hesse Street Queenscliff, Victoria
Front: July 2025 (detail), 2025, watercolour, 71x89cm Left: Ship Spotting, Port Phillip (detail), 2025, watercolour, 115x79cm
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ABOUT “I am influenced by water wherever I am, the sea, rivers; fresh or salt. I’m in, on or underwater, I am Immersed, physically and mentally. I am involved totally in my work, immersing myself in my studio or outdoors with nature.” - Bridgit Thomas Influenced by a lifetime of drawing and living by the sea, Bridgit Thomas’ work explores fish and marine themes infused with the richness of coastal environments, natural flora and fauna. Focusing on the environment in which she finds herself, Bridgit brings a rich, multi-layered approach as she interprets what she has experienced through a palate of both natural and manmade elements. ‘Immersed’ catalogues Bridgit’s work over the span of 2025. Culminating in an impressive collection of paintings, prints and ceramics, this exhibition showcases her immersion in the natural environment and her artistic practice.
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PAINTINGS & PRINTS
Ship Spotting, Port Phillip, 2025, watercolour, 115x79cm | $4,800
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Winter Months, 2025, watercolour, 78.5x115cm | $4,800
Hammerhead Shark, 2025, watercolour, 61x115cm | $4,600
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Black Swan, 2025, watercolour, 71x89cm | $4,200
May 2025, 2025, watercolour, 71x89cm | $4,200
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June 2025, 2025, watercolour, 71x89cm | $4,200
July 2025, 2025, watercolour, 71x89cm | $4,200
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Up North, 2025, watercolour, 71x89cm | $4,200
Southern Calamari, 2025, watercolour, 58x89cm | $3,800
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Rosella Hybrid, 2025, watercolour, 56x70cm | $2,400
Blue Swimmer Crab, 2025, watercolour, 69x55.5cm | $2,400
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Yabbies, 2025, watercolour, 52x70cm | $2,400
Year of the Squid, 2025, acrylic on linen, 53x67cm | $2,400
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Left: Fiji Fish, 2025, watercolour, 47x36cm | $1,200 Right: Darwin Harbour, 2025, watercolour, 47x36cm | $1,200
Left: South Channel 1, 2025, watercolour, 47x36cm | $1,200 Right: South Channel 2, 2025, watercolour, 47x36cm | $1,200
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Sponge, 2025, watercolour, 32x35cm | $950
Left: Squid Jigs 1, 2025, watercolour, 39x28cm | $980 Right: Squid Jigs 2, 2025, watercolour, 39x28cm | $980
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Stingray, 2025, drypoint mezzotint, 100x80cm, | $1,600
Another Day in Paradise, 2025, hand coloured lithograph, ed. 6/10, 82x63cm, | $1,400
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Total Immersion, 2025, lithograph, ed. A/P, 63x82cm | $1,500
Left: Sepioteuthis Australis, 2025, lithograph, ed. A/P, 53x69cm | $1,200 Right: Red Squid, 2025, lithograph, ed. A/P, 53x69cm | $1,200
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Left: Homage to Hertha, 2025, drypoint, ed. A/P, 59x47cm | $700 Right: Portland Crayboats, 2025, drypoint, ed. A/P, 45x37cm | $700
Left: Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon, 2025, etching, 33x34cm | $700 Right: Southern Pygmy Perch, 2025, etching, 33x34cm | $700
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SHIP SPOTTING DIARY SERIES
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Above: (detail) South Channel 2, 2025, watercolour, 47x36cm Left: Week 26th - 30th June, 2025, watercolour, 33x36cm | $975
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Ship Spotting Diary series, 2025, watercolour, 33x36cm | $975 each 1. January 1st
13. Week 17th - 21st February
25. Week 26th - 30th April
2. Week 2nd - 6th January
14. Week 27th February - 3rd March
26. Week 5th - 9th May
3. Week 7th - 10th January
15. Week 4th - 8th March
27. Week 10th - 13th May
4. Week 11th - 15th January
16. Week 9th - 11th March
28. Week 14th - 18th May
5. Week 16th - 20th January
17. Week 11th - 15th March
29. Week 19th - 23rd May
6. Week 21st - 25th January
18. Week 18th - 22nd March
30. Week 24th - 28th February
7. January 26th
19. Week 23rd - 27th March
31. Week 29th May - 2nd June
8. Week 27th - 31st January
20. Week 28th - 31st March
32. Week 4th - 8th June
9. Hobart 2025
21. Week 1st - 4th April
33. Week 9th - 13th June
10. Week 1st - 5th February
22. Week 5th - 7th April
34. Week 14th - 18th June
11. February 6th
23. Week 8th - 12th April
35. Week 19th - 24th June
12. Week 12th - 16th February
24. Week 23rd - 25th April
36. Week 24th - 28th May
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CERAMICS
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Ceramics | $460 1. Blue Crab, 28x39cm 2. Faded Lobster, 39x28cm 3. Snapper, 30x41cm 4. Three Fish & Bait Fish, 28x39cm 5. Three Mackerel, 27x38cm 6. Three Fish, 28x39cm 7. Two Fish & Sardines, 28x35cm 8. Two Squid 1, 28x39cm 9. Two Squid 2, 29x36cm 10. Sardines, 28x29cm
Ceramics | $420 11. Bonito, 15x38cm 12. Garfish, 15x39cm 13. Squid 1, 15x39cm 14. Kingfish, 15x49cm 15. Rainbow Trout, 15x48cm 16. Salmon 1, 15x39cm 17. Leather Jacket, 15x39cm 18. Salmon 2, 15x39cm Above: Garfish, 2025, ceramic, 15x39cm | $420 Below: Squid 1, 2025, ceramic, 15x39m | $420
19. Squid 2, 15x39cm 20. Two Fish, 20x33cm 21. Two KG Whiting, 15x39cm
Born Melbourne 1961
BRIDGIT THOMAS SELECTED CV
EDUCATION BA Fine Art majoring in Printmaking, Caulfield Institute of Technology SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2026 ‘Immersed’ SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 2024 ‘Time and Tide’ SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 2023 ‘Ship Spotting’ SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 2021 ‘Charmed Circle’ SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 2020 ‘All at Sea’ SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 2019 ‘Ship to Shore’ Merricks Wine Store Mornington Peninsula 2019 ‘No Like is the Same’ SALT Contemporary Art, Queenscliff 2018 ‘Fish & Ships’, Merricks Wine Store Mornington Peninsula 2017 Mornington Library Foyer Artist Space, Mornington 2016 Gallery Sorrento, Easter exhibition 2015 Portland Bay Press, Julia St. Creative Space, Portland 2012 ‘Superstructures’ Dome Gallery, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2010 ‘Local Species’ Gallery Sorrento 2007 Gallery Sorrento 2002 Gallery Sorrento 2000 New Paintings, Gallery Sorrento 1999 Christmas Exhibition, Gallery Sorrento 1997 Fishing and Boating Show, Melbourne Exhibition Centre 1996 Easter Exhibition, Gallery Sorrento 1995 Art House Gallery, Paddington, NSW 1995 Gallery Sorrento SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2025 ‘Papermade’, Salt Contemporary, Queenscliff 2024 Summer Show, Salt Contemporary Art. Queenscliff 2023 The Fifth Art Encounters: Art Composition International Group Exhibition. Beograd 2022 ‘Ephemeral’, Ceramics, Antipodes Gallery, Sorrento 2022 ‘Birds of a Feather’, Salt Contemporary Gallery, Queenscliff 2022 Retrospective, AiR Exhibition Police Point, Portsea 2022 ‘Sea to Shore’, Salt Contemporary Gallery, Queenscliff 2020 ‘Miniatures in March’, Portland Bay Press, Julia St. Creative Space, Portland
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PRIZES 2017 2015 2012
Winner, People’s Choice. Mission to Seafarers, Docklands Best Other Medium; Mornington Peninsula Art Show Winner, Continental Hotel Annual Art Prize, Sorrento
SHORTLISTED PRIZES 2025 Finalist WAMA Art Prize, National Centre for Environmental Art, Halls Gap. 2025 Southern Ocean Art Prize, Robe. South Australia 2025 Selected work Installation Window, Barnacle Studios, The Broadway, Rosebud. 2023 House of Stories’, Lighthouse Arts, Nobby’s Whibayganba Headland, Newcastle 2023 ‘Retreats de vaixells’ Portraits of Ships, Maritime Museum of Barcelona 2023 Finalist Burnie Print Prize, Burnie Tasmania 2022 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2022 Selected, Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, South Australian Museum, Adelaide 2021 Shortlisted People’s Choice. Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2021 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2020 Linden Postcard Show, St. Kilda 2020 Shortlisted People’s Choice. Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2020 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2019 Shortlisted People’s Choice. Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2019 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2018 Selected Blarney Biblio Art Award, Port Fairy and Tacit Gallery, 2018 Shortlisted People’s Choice. Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2018 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2017 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2017 Finalist Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery 2016 Shortlisted Svitzer People’s Choice Award, Maritime Art Prize 2016 Finalist Maritime Art Prize, Mission to Seafarers, Docklands 2016 Selected Bellarine Print Prize, Pt. Lonsdale, Vic. RESIDENCIES 2023 - 2025 Artist-in-Residence, Lancaster Press, Fiji 2022 Artist-in-Residence, Lighthouse Arts, Nobby’s Head, Newcastle 2017 Artist-in Residence, Warrener Arts, Portsea Victoria 2017 Artist-in-Residence, The Art Vault, Mildura 2015 Artist-in-Residence, Police Point, Portsea Victoria 2015 Artist-in-Residence, Julia Street Creative Space, Portland Victoria COMMISSIONS 2025 Artwork for Rick Stein Restaurant, Coogee Beach NSW 2021 Artwork for Apartments and Penthouse, Langdon Hotel, Gold Coast
IMMERSED New paintings, prints & ceramics by Bridgit Thomas January 12 - February 2, 2026
Salt Contemporary info@salt-art.com.au +61 3 5258 3988 +61 439 353 624 salt-art.com.au 33-35 Hesse St, Queenscliff, VIC, 3225
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