THE "BRIDGE~STYLE"

 Eoghan Bridge is a second-generation sculptor who has lived his entire life immersed in a sculptural environment. From an early age, it was clear that sculpture would become his language, a way to express the ineffable. He found this voice through the evolving motif of horse and rider, exploring its dynamic possibilities with an innovative and personal perspective.

With a profound understanding of clay and moulding processes, Bridge approached equestrian composition not as tradition, but as a starting point for reinvention. After studying the long and storied history of equestrian art, he began to subvert it, literally turning it on its head, creating figures that transcend historical narrative and speak instead from instinct, emotion, and intuition.

His sculptures emerge through a deeply sensory process. Rather than reasoning his way toward an image, Bridge feels his way there, trusting a moment when something simply feels right. This intuitive approach is supported by years of rigorous compositional study, visible in the thousands of drawings that fill his sketchbooks. The result is work with ambiguous narrative, yet profound presence, art that doesn't ask to be interpreted, but to be encountered.

Bridge’s work carries a timeless quality. It refuses to follow trends or seek approval from the structures of the contemporary art world. Instead, he remains devoted to what feels real and necessary in the moment. He views art as something lateral and universal, transcending institutions and hierarchies. For him, it is a means of reckoning with what it means to be an ordinary person confronted by the extraordinary actuality of existence—a life full of questions, with very few answers.

To understand the deeper impulse behind Bridge’s work, it is important to acknowledge the loss and grief that have shaped his path. In 1992, his sister Wendy was murdered. A decade later, Amanda, another sister, died suddenly. Two years after that, his mother Maisie passed away from what he describes as a broken heart. These events altered everything. They tempered youthful ambition and awakened a profound need to create with integrity, clarity, and truth.

Through art, Bridge seeks to honour the sacred gift of life, a gift he has seen taken too soon from those he loved. His grief gave him a radical sense of presence, a realization that life is finite, and that there are no excuses: one must forge a personal path through the resistance of convention. For him, art is a form of personal liberation, an uncompromising act of love, devotion, and existential clarity.

Years of practice and introspection have shaped him into a complex artist, often caught between inner freedom and outer constraints. His journey has not been linear. It has taken time to find his voice, but today his work flourishes with a renewed sense of confidence and divergence. His majestic equestrian sculptures, often seemingly airborne, defy logic and soar with imagination. They are sculptures from the heart, mind, and soul, created with passion, belief, and unwavering commitment.

Bridge believes that art should be equal and accessible, a truthful expression offered without hierarchy or commercial compromise. He seeks to make work that resonates on a sensory level, referencing the timeless quality of being. For him, a piece of art must stand alone, inviting each viewer to bring their own meaning to the encounter. There is no single narrative, only the courage to feel, trust, and respond.

His work is a gesture of honesty and trust: a sacred offering of his inner truth in a shared space of connection. Slowly, he is learning how to live and create on his own terms,producing art that feels right in the moment, without certainty or destination. He does not take life for granted. For Bridge, the act of making art is not about arrival, but about presence, a commitment to the journey, and to the multi-splendored glory of the moment we call now.