Jac Bradley

About the work

This year, Jac Bradley presents her artwork as part of two curated exhibitions; Palate Cleanser at Such And Such, and Pop songs in the desert at The Mixing Room Gallery.

For the group show Pop songs in the desert, Bradley presents a new body of work exploring replication and reproduction in human bodies and fruiting trees. Calendar is a series of 38 wall-based works taking the stone fruit as a starting point to examine organic cycles of growth and decay. In glass and bronze, these minimal and refined objects move between empty and full, marking the days, months and seasons. The imagery in Calendar draws on plum seeds, peach stones, and box liners used to hold soft fruit. Forms are replicated through casting; reusing moulds in multiple materials, pressing seeds into clay and utilising lost wax methods. These processes mimic the production of the fruit tray and the reproduction of the peach; a mould is used to make repeated forms, just as a fruit is made multiple by the tree, or a stone holds the potential for a future orchard.

About the artist

Dr Jacqueline Bradley is an artist and lecturer. Her practice is concerned with bodily relationships to the outdoors, and her recent work focuses on the peach, rich as it is with histories and associations of fertility, decay, and bodily metaphor.

She has exhibited and collaborated with artists and curators in Australia and internationally, including installations for the National Portrait Gallery, the European Touring exhibition, FuturoTextiles, and production of work for the Australian Embassy Gallery in Washington, D.C. Her practice is discussed in Columbia Universities Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, and she has developed major bodies of work for the Canberra Glassworks, Goulburn Regional Gallery, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and Craft Victoria.

Jacqueline lectures at the National Art School and works in both Sydney and Canberra.