Since establishing her jewellery line in 2019, Bridges has created an ever-evolving collection that blends fun forms with traditional techniques. Working from her Neukölln studio, she crafts each piece using recycled sterling silver and Murano glass. “I’m completely self-taught,” Bridges says, which allows her to handle the material in a more natural way. “The thing I would want people to know … is how much effort and time goes into every single idea and piece. It’s not as throwaway as you think. All the small things that you don’t really think about, someone has really agonised over that.”
Each of her rings is named after a female artist – Kusama, Hilma, Rego – as a quiet homage to the women who have shaped the creative world. Her rings, plus the occasional cuff, are available through curated art marketplace APOC. Bridges also sells at select pop-ups in Berlin throughout the year, though, as she puts it, “The pop-up scene has Berlin in a chokehold … Every weekend in summer I’m like ‘Oh my god, not another one.’”
“There have been so many funding cuts to the arts recently, and rent prices have obviously been going up … for people to be able to make, or craft, whatever that looks like, you need two things: you need the space and you need the time.” Bridges, who moved to Berlin in mid-2020, says the city is still holding on to its rep. “It is one of the only global cities where you can really make work and also live for cheap, and that’s really unique… Without that, I don’t think Berlin will be half as cool.”
With her distinctive pieces featured by i-D magazine and worn by the likes of globally renowned musicians like Lola Young (yes, we can all be a little too messy sometimes), it would be easy to assume that these milestones top Bridges’ list of proudest achievements.
Instead, she reflects, “I don’t think it’s necessarily the places I’ve been stocked, or things I’ve been featured in, or who’s worn my work. It’s the fact that I’ve centred my whole life around creative work and making art. That I’ve actually made that happen is probably my biggest achievement, because growing up I didn’t think it would be possible.”
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