About Brigitte
Art That Maps
Your Story.
My name is Brigitte Gerges. I'm a Lebanese-Australian contemporary artist working from my studio in Sydney.
I create what I call Contemporary Cartography of the Diaspora - softly blended textured acrylic paintings that embed GPS coordinates, heritage maps, and aerial photography into their foundational layers.
On the surface, my work looks abstract. Soft brushstrokes, rich texture, warm earths and golds. But underneath every painting is a real map. A real place. A real story.
I paint for people who carry more than one country in their chest. People who refuse to choose between where they came from and where they are now. My paintings create a third space - where all of it belongs.
It started with a Turkish rug.
In 1989, my grandmother held a Turkish rug above a car roof while bullets rained down on the road out of Lebanon. She was protecting the children underneath. My family was fleeing to Australia.
They arrived in Western Sydney with nothing except each other. They built a life from the ground up - a new language, a new culture, a new home.
That's the root of everything I make. I embed real GPS coordinates, real aerial photography, and real heritage maps of real places into layers of textured acrylic. The map disappears beneath the paint. The story stays.
My grandmother couldn't take Lebanon with her when she left. But I can paint it onto a canvas and hang it on the wall. And now, so can you.
From urgency to stillness.
In January 2026, I became a mother. And everything shifted.
The maps I'd been painting for years - of displacement, of searching, of the places my family left behind - suddenly had a new destination. Motherhood brought everything into focus.
That commonality is what gives it power. I want to be a voice for mothers who don't know how to express what they are carrying, particularly those navigating postpartum depression and anxiety in silence.
Selected credentials
Ongoing series
Your place. Your coordinates.
Your painting.
I take a limited number of bespoke painting commissions each season. If you carry a place inside you that deserves to be on a wall, I'd love to hear about it.