Fashion Eager to begin a career, Kidd left art school early, and she took work as an assistant to local fashion photographers. She soon moved to the
United Kingdom, in 1992, where she worked with fellow Australian
Polly Borland and fashion photographer
Clive Arrowsmith. At barely 23 years of age she was taken on by the Queen's couturier
Sir Hardy Amies to shoot exclusively for his
Savile Row seasonal collections and advertising. For these, she started to use a medium-format
Rollei and hired famed British model
Paula Hamilton. Kidd has expressed her angle on fashion as an admiration of beauty rather than mere 'sexiness'. The magazines in which her fashion photography was published include ''
Harper's Bazaar,
Queen,
Tatler,
Marie Claire UK,
Sainsbury's Magazine, Day Four, Wedding and Home Magazine,
The London Magazine,
and The Saturday Times.''
Portraitist Since 1988 a number of her portraits of fashion designers, including
Bella Freud,
Bruce Oldfield (OBE),
Caroline Charles and shoe designer
Jimmy Choo have been on exhibition at, and are held in, the
National Portrait Gallery, London. Her portrait of
John Cleese appeared on the cover of the
BBC publication
The Human Face. Of portraiture, Kidd has said;
Return to Australia In 2004, Kidd moved back to Australia where she concentrated on advertising and fashion, but also continued her portraiture, depicting important Australian icons; actress
Teresa Palmer, and photographer
Bill Henson. Her portraits began to feature prominently in the national press, and subjects include
Judge Betty King, Vicki Roach,
Philip Lynch,
Kate Ceberano, Rob Story,
Fiona Smith,
Kon Karapanagiotidis,
Maxine Morand,
Daniel Andrews,
Helen Silver,
Rod Eddington,
Lindsay Tanner,
Greg Hunt,
Bernie Finn,
Gideon Obarzanek, Carole Francis, and artists Bill Henson,
Sam Leach and
Gareth Samson. In 2016 she co-created, with long-time collaborator the creative director Virginia Dowzer, the image used to promote the
National Gallery of Victoria’s
200 Years of Australian Fashion exhibition.
Fine artist In the 2020s Kidd turned from the commercial world and devoted her attention to collaborative fine art projects from which, every year, she has produced solo exhibitions, contributed to group exhibitions, and participated successfully in major awards. She was represented by MARS Gallery, Melbourne, and Flinders Lane Gallery, has exhibited at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale and at Frankston and Montsalvat arts centres. The journal
Art Collector describes how her series
Through Her Breath "celebrates ancestral breath, placing women, whose bodies are the source of our first breaths, as the inscribers of embodied legacies of past and present." Andrea Louise Thomas of Frankston Arts Centre notes the collaboration between Kidd, the choreographer Carol Brown, costume designer Virginia Dowser, paper artist Amanda May for the set, and with the dancers: The dancers explored how they could move in the costumes. Bronwyn then thought of putting the dancers on a revolving set inside the cove like an animated diorama. The dancers moved fluidly like two sea lions in rippling sea kelp. Blending digital and analogue photography techniques, Bronwyn came up with a series of twelve dynamic, striking images celebrating the female spirit through dance. ==Selected awards==