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Rebecca Bradley

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Rebecca Bradley is an artist living and working in North County Cork.  Her practice explores ideas about landscape, abstraction and place-hood. Bradley works mainly with paint and found materials to map ideas about our experiences of place. The effects of erosion, accumulation, growth and recycling find expression in the materiality of Bradley’s use of found materials such as grit, ash and sand with paint and mediums that render blobs of semi organic detritus and smooth veils of paint alongside one another. Recent work focuses on Edgelands, as places of human and geographical displacement and sites where the man-made and organic converge creating material & conceptual peculiarities for  interrogation in paint, sculpture and performance. In 2019 she was awarded a residency at the Mark Rothko Arts Centre (Daugavpils), in 2021 received Arts Council funding and in 2022 was selected for the  Irish Contemporaries in CIACLA Santa Monica. She is also interested in the interplay of text and image and has released two collaborative  publications ‘Still there and ready ‘with text by Dr. Sarah  Hayden and “Edgelands” with text by Sarah Kelleher. She recently expanded her practice to include performances at the Irish Museum of Modern Art as part of The Breaking Cover Collective.

Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, UK and USA. Recent acquisitions of her work have been made by the OPW State Art Collection and the Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils. 

Education

  • MA (Art and Process), MTU, Crawford College of Art and Design 2013
  • BA Fine Art (painting), MTU Crawford College of Art and design 2007
  • H. Dip in Co-op organisation, Food Marketing and Rural Development (UCC) 1994
  • BA Sociology (Kingston University) 1991
Exhibitions

2022

  • The Irish Contemporaries , CIACLA, Los Angeles, (2022)
  • Earth Rising, Irish Museum Modern Art (IMMA) (2022)  
  • Canvas and Clay, Lavit Gallery, Cork (2022)

2021

  • Breaking Cover Performance, IMMA (2021) 
  • We Only Have the Earth, A4 Sounds, Dublin, (2021)
  • Slip Stream, MTU Gallery, Cork (2021) 
  • Evanescent, West Cork Arts Centre (2021)

2020

  • Rothko Art Centre Collection, National Library, Latvia, (2020); 
  • Stories From Lismore & Beyond (2020);
  •  Athens Open, (2020)

2019

  •  Rothko Painting Residency, Rothko Art Centre, Latvia (2019)
  • This is A Painting Show, SternView,(2019)
  •  We Each have our own Landscape, Arthouse, London,(2019)

2018

  •  Group show, Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens (2018)
  •  Misc Arts, Romania (2018)
  •  Thresholds, Gonzo, Thessaloniki, (2018)
  • Nostalgia, no.23, London, (2018)

2017

  • The More You See The less You Hold , Sternview, Cork,(2017)
  • Art Works, Visual, Carlow Arts Festival, (2016)
  •  Utopia Dystopia, Fringe Arts, Bath

2016

  •  Vestige of Place, Seamus Ennis Art Centre, Naul (2016).

 

Rebecca
Bradley

Rebecca Bradley’s practice includes painting, installation and performance to explore ideas about our encounters with landscape and place. Central to her approach is a concern for space, light, mark making and the material substance of her surroundings which she sometimes incorporates into her work. 

Bradley’s painting practice occurs through periods of research by  reading, process, memory and direct observation and a belief in paint as a medium that can communicate through suggestion, ambiguity and it’s very visceral presence. Her research reflects on painting’s place as an intermediary for broader concerns about the environment, and subjective perception and a mindful eye on the history of art and the tradition of painting.. Past work has explored protest banners as a format for painting and train journeys as triggers for speculation and imaginings. An ongoing theme in her practice is a focus on places at intersections and boundaries as loci of fecundity and adaptation.

Rebecca Bradley
Wallflower,live performance, dimensions variable, Irish Museum of Modern Art.
2022
Rebecca Bradley
Scattered Land, Oil, Plaster, grit and spray paint on linen, 100 x 80 cm
2022
Rebecca Bradley
The Banquet (as part of Breaking Cover Performance), live performance, dimensions variable, Irish Museum of Modern Art
2021
Rebecca Bradley
Stars Silently Fall, mixed media on linen, 80 x 100 cm
2022
Rebecca Bradley
Hook Head, Oil ,spray paint and ink on linen, 60 x 50 cm
2022

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