At Winchester Galleries on Broad Street

Opening: Saturday, May 5, 2007 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Exhibition continues until May 26, 2007

Linda Stanbridge's work is very retinal: It appeals aesthetically; there is a beauty to it… a beauty arguably deriving from clarity of line and form and from the colour and texture of her materials, mainly clay and steel. The approach has currency: In critical circles today, decorative art is highly regarded. Yet this artist allies also with a contemporary intellectual trend. She pulls back quite substantially into abstraction - makes the footing there perhaps unsure - and through an op-art twist, indeed also through the symbolism of geometric forms (whether pure or realistic) compells a reflective response.

The interiors of some of her sculpture are illusive, i.e. hidden, mysterious. The paces in other works split off dramatically in different directions. At othertimes unity is foremost as with the cut-away, virtually identical two-section magnete-like "Us". If its top (yellow) sections joined together, a single, elliptical form would result.

Exhibitions of Linda Stanbridge's artwork have included a solo at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 1990, the piece "Cycle" at the 13th International Biennial of Ceramics at the Picasso Museum in Vallauris, France in 1992, a solo at the Nanaimo Art Gallery in 2003 and a solo at the Comox Valley Art Gallery in 2006. Commissioned work by Linda Stanbridge is on display at the Victoria International Airport's departure lounge, the Cedar Hill Rec Centre, the James Bay Firehall and the Centre for Innovative Teaching