Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman

Yuriyal Eric Bridgeman develops a practice closely tied to his family and clan, Yuri Alaiku (Simbu Province). Photography, painting, performance and installation operate in relation to the raun haus, a communal structure reconfigured as a site for making, gathering and exchange. Co-founder of the collective Haus Yuriyal, he operates there as both artist and facilitator. The kuman (shields), derived from the masculine practices of his clan, become pictorial surfaces that combine personal and collective expressions, questioning the relationships among portraiture, social commentary and cultural continuity.

With the support of the Australian Embassy in France