Bridget Wishart is a vocalist and performance artist who performed with Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

 from 1989 to 1991, appearing on the albums Space Bandits

Space Bandits

Space Bandits is the sixteenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1990. It spent one week on the UK albums chart at #70....

, Palace Springs

Palace Springs (album)

Palace Springs is a 1991 live/studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind.Although released in 1991, this album was recorded in 1989 prior to the previous album Space Bandits...

, California Brainstorm

California Brainstorm

California Brainstorm is a live album by the British space rock group Hawkwind, recorded during their North America tour in 1990, and released in 1992 in the USA on the Iloki label....

and Take Me to Your Future

Take Me to Your Future

Take Me to Your Future is a 2006 dual disc of new studio audio and archive live videos by Hawkwind.-Audio side:#"Uncle Sam’s on Mars" - 8:18 - new version...

and, among others, the Nottingham 1990 video.

She obtained BA

Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...

 in Fine Art

Fine art

Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....

 from Newport Art School (now part of the University of Wales, Newport

University of Wales, Newport

The University of Wales, Newport is a university based in Newport, South Wales. The university has two campuses; Caerleon on the northern outskirts of the city and a £35 million campus on the banks of the River Usk in Newport city centre opened in 2011...

) and an MFA

Master of Fine Arts

A Master of Fine Arts is a graduate degree typically requiring 2–3 years of postgraduate study beyond the bachelor's degree , although the term of study will vary by country or by university. The MFA is usually awarded in visual arts, creative writing, filmmaking, dance, or theatre/performing arts...

 from Reading University. She is a fellow of Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology (now University of Gloucestershire

University of Gloucestershire

The University of Gloucestershire is a university primarily based in Gloucestershire, England, spread over four campuses, three in Cheltenham and one in Gloucester...

) and taught ceramic sculpture at Prior Park College

Prior Park College

Prior Park College is a Roman Catholic co-educational independent school for both day and boarding pupils.It is situated on a hill overlooking the city of Bath, in Somerset, in south-west England...

, Bath.

Her first band was The Demented Stoats in 1979 with Richard Chadwick (Hawkwind's current drummer), 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

World of Music, Arts and Dance

WOMAD is an international arts festival. The central aim of WOMAD is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and dance.-History:...

.

Currently she is working with Spirits Burning

Spirits Burning

Spirits Burning is a musical collective that has released a combination of ambient, jazz and full-on space-rock with input from many of the genre's luminaries, most notably Gong's Daevid Allen and members of Hawkwind. Spirits Burning is overseen by American composer/producer Don Falcone.-History:In...

, a musical collective run by Don Falcone

Don Falcone

Don Falcone is an American musician and producer. Originally a poet-performer in Pennsylvania, he relocated to San Francisco at the beginning of the 1980s. He was a member of Thessalonians and the original Melting Euphoria...

 whose members include Alan Davey

Alan Davey (musician)

Alan Davey is best known as the former bassist with Hawkwind. He is now the bass player and vocalist for Gunslinger as well as Hawklords, Meads of Asphodel, and Thunor.-Early musical career:...

, Daevid Allen

Daevid Allen

Daevid Allen , sometimes credited as Divided Alien, an Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist is co-founder of psychedelic rock groups Soft Machine and Gong .-Biography:In 1960, inspired by the Beat Generation writers he had discovered...

, Karl E. H. Seigfried

Karl E. H. Seigfried

Karl E. H. Seigfried is a German-American jazz, rock, and classical bassist, guitarist, composer, bandleader, writer and educator based in Chicago....

, Simon House

Simon House

Simon House is a composer and classically trained violinist and keyboard player, perhaps best known for his work with space rock band Hawkwind. His arrival in 1974 introduced a new element to the band's style...

, and Cyndee Lee Rule. Spirits Burning & Bridget Wishart collaborated on the albums; Earth Born, Alien Injection, Bloodlines and Crazy Fluid.

She also works with Stephen Palmer's Mooch, a band based in Shropshire

Shropshire

Shropshire is a county in the West Midlands region of England. For Eurostat purposes, the county is a NUTS 3 region and is one of four counties or unitary districts that comprise the "Shropshire and Staffordshire" NUTS 2 region. It borders Wales to the west...

 and Omenopus on their album Time Flies. Another collaboration is with Alan Davey

Alan Davey (musician)

Alan Davey is best known as the former bassist with Hawkwind. He is now the bass player and vocalist for Gunslinger as well as Hawklords, Meads of Asphodel, and Thunor.-Early musical career:...

 the former Hawkwind bass player, on an album of Arabic-flavoured material.

With Dave Adams she worked on the album Remnants Of Life as part of the group Osiris the rebirth, and with US band Spaceseed

Spaceseed

Spaceseed is a North American space rock act founded in 1988 in Atlanta Georgia by guitarist John Pack.The group spent a number of years "testing" ideas in the studio as well as performing live at events like Lollapalooza and a myriad of chic clubs...

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In addition to vocal contributions, she plays saxophone

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

, EWI

EWI

EWI is the name of AKAI's wind controller, an electronic musical instrument invented by Nyle Steiner. The early models consisted of two parts: a wind controller and a synthesizer. The current model, EWI4000S, combines the two parts into one, placing the synthesizer in the lower section of the...

 (Electronic Wind Instrument) and cabassa.