Bridget currently teaches at Willoughby Arts Centre and works from a studio nearby on the lower North Shore of Sydney. She previously ran a contemporary jewellery and object gallery  for 15 years. Initially as co-director of Studio 20/17 opening in 2008, and then, as director of The Project Space. The gallery reflected the philosophy of a connected, sustainably creative democratic community by providing a retail area to support a collection of handpicked jewellery and object artists at all career levels, selected for their individuality, creative abilities and superior workmanship. An ongoing exhibition, student mentorship, and a workshop/event program reflected a continuing commitment to community activation. She gives back a percentage of profits to a different environmental or arts charity each year and in 2021 was elected as an Independent Councillor for Lane Cove.

As an artist with a background in painting and contemporary jewellery, her more recent creative projects have explored participatory installations and the viewer as participant to activate the artwork. Other projects incorporating community activation continue an ongoing enquiry into environmental fragility, materiality, impermanence, choice, value and exchange. 

Bridget’s formative years of early childhood were spent in Fiji and the South Pacific. With cultural ties to the Philippines through her life partner, these influences and exchanges have informed her practice.

Bridget began her art studies in 1983 at City Art Institute, University of NSW (majoring in Painting). Circumstances resulted in a diversion to a corporate career before making the switch in 2003 back to pursuing her art practice full time.  From 2003-2005 she undertook studies in an Advanced Diploma in Jewellery and Object Design at the Design Centre Enmore and was the inaugural recipient of the Jewellery and Object Design Award (a one-year full-time residency). Bridget also holds a Trade Certificate in Jewellery Manufacture and in 2008 co-founded Studio 20/17, a contemporary jewellery gallery and workshop based in Waterloo, Sydney.  For a number of years she was an active committee member of the Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia NSW, holding various roles of treasurer and secretary, and in 2015, exhibitions and events coordinator of the 2015 JMGA conference held at Sydney College of the Arts. Kennedy has participated in numerous exhibitions, both nationally and internationally (Thailand, New Zealand, USA, and Japan) and was a resident artist at Bundenon and Hill End, NSW. In 2015 she completed a coursework Masters in Studio Art at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney. In 2017 she setup Bridget Kennedy Project Space (formally Studio 20/17 P/S), located in North Sydney and is a founding member of The Repair Cafe Sydney North, the instigator of The Sydney Edible Garden Trail and The Sydney Library of Things. She has been a board member on the World Crafts Council of Australia and the Australian Design Centre.