Robert Bridgewater
Robert Bridgewater is a sculptor, born in Victoria in 1971. He obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University in 1992 when he also won the National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award. He went on to complete a Graduate Diploma of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995, receiving the Post Graduate Encouragement Award the previous year. In 1995 he won the Kangaroo Sculpture Award, was a finalist in the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award in 2001, 2003 (highly commended) and 2005, and also a finalist in the McClelland Sculpture Survey and Award in 2010.