Bridget Steer - The Friendliest Bedside Table

33.6cm x 33.6cm

Acrylic and house paint on canvas, framed in raw oak

"The Friendliest Bedside Table”

"I love daisies. They’re so friendly. Don’t you think daisies are the friendliest flower?” (You’ve Got Mail) A bedside stack from our old Queenslander cottage with some of my Country Style magazines, my mother-in-law’s Galah magazines and my mum’s jug holding a very friendly bunch of daisies. The friendliest bedside table.

Bridget Steer

Bridget Steer is an emerging artist and women’s health GP living in Toowoomba (land of the Giabal, Jarowair and Jagera people). Bridget’s artworks are narrative works, using specific composition choices and often children’s toys to convey how ordinary, small moments can capture common human experiences.

Working in mostly acrylics and house paints initially acted as a practical strategy to overcome the mental barriers that can come with using “precious” materials - preventing starting, experimenting or the fear of not achieving a perfect result. However it has also become a philosophical choice to elevate the building blocks of the work, to parallel the way women’s crafts have not previously been accepted as art as they haven’t conformed to the traditional materials used by Western artists.

In 2025 Bridget was a finalist in the Art to Art Unearthed Art Prize and the Corner Store Gallery’s Inside This Box Art Prize. Bridget’s work is featured in the 2025 Australian Artist Collective x Dangerous Females Collaboration to fundraise for domestic violence charities. Bridget has been invited to exhibit at the 2026 Grammar Art Show at Toowoomba Grammar School.

A percentage of profits from each artwork sale is donated to charity.