Bridget Wishart

Who is Bridget Wishart?

Bridget Wishart is an English vocalist, musician and performance artist who performed with Hawkwind from 1989 to 1991, appearing on the albums Space Bandits, Palace Springs, California Brainstorm and Take Me to Your Future and, among others, the Nottingham 1990 video.

She obtained BA in Fine Art from Newport Art School and an MFA from Reading University. She is a fellow of Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology and taught ceramic sculpture at Prior Park College, Bath.

Her first band was The Demented Stoats in 1979 with Richard Chadwick, followed by Next Years Big Thing and the Hippy Slags, all bands based around Bath. After leaving Hawkwind she was artist designer and painter for Temple Decor a UV design company used by WOMAD.

Currently she is working with Spirits Burning, a musical collective run by Don Falcone whose members include Alan Davey, Daevid Allen, Karl E. H. Seigfried, Simon House, and Cyndee Lee Rule. Spirits Burning & Bridget Wishart collaborated on the albums; Earth Born, Alien Injection, Bloodlines and Crazy Fluid.