Gordon Ashbridge

Gordon Ashbridge is a photographer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. His art-work is inspired by the beauty of ordinary places and objects, but believes that these so called mundane things have a deeper philosophical and spiri-tual significance. His recent projects have included ‘the Miracle of Stories and the Mystery‘ and ‘Do You Remember‘ both of them acknowledge the transcendent importance of stories, whether fictional or real and that these stories must be told.
His South African project ‘sad…and beautiful place‘ is a visual journey through the townships of Cape Town, South Africa. The work investigates how the photograph is an aid to remembering the unremembered and chal-lenges our response to the forgotten. Sad and Beautiful Place was his first solo exhibition at Ards Arts Centre, Newtownards and also published as a book in collaboration with writer Steve Stockman. He has exhibited in sev-eral group shows in Northern Ireland and internationally in China and Russia.