Rebecca Bradley

Rebecca Bradley’s practice investigates themes of landscape and memory through painting. By a process of studio and site based research, she explores how our sense of place is not certain but contingent upon what we believe and what we choose to remember. Her paintings reflect on, and evoke our lived and deeply subjective impressions of place. She salvages and embeds materials, such as rubble and sand, from these, often transitional sites, to build up surfaces that punctuate and disrupt the traditional two dimensional picture plane. For Bradley this process is a bid to archive a sense of instability, and alludes to the volatility of these landscapes from ongoing human and ecological interventions.


“These are paintings that deserve to be viewed close-up and sidelong, so that we are reminded why it is that people still do and should and need to paint.”; Dr. Sarah Hayden, University of Southampton, excerpt from talk delivered on the occasion of the opening of Provisional View Exhibition, September 2015

“She uses found materials such as foxed paper and faded postcards to make quietly restrained paintings of gentle decay. The results at first seem muted and spare, almost minimal, but also present an absorbing investiga...

Bradley holds a BA in fine art Painting and an MA in fine art and process from the Crawford college of art and design, Cork. She also holds a higher diploma in Rural development from University College Cork and a degree in Sociology from Kingston University.

Solo exhibitions include:The More You See the Less You Hold, Stern View Gallery, Cork, A new publication Still There and Ready was released to coincide with this exhibition (2017), Vestige of Place, Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, (2016); Provisional View, Sternview Gallery, Cork, (2015); Situate, Parade, Margate, UK, (2013); Postcards, Enniskillen Visual Arts Festival, Co. Fermanagh, (2010); Soft Days, Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Co. Cork, (2009). Group exhibitions include: Design Pop, Thompson House, Cork
(2019), Lavit Gallery, Cork, Small works (2018)
Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens (2018)
Misc Arts, Timisoara, Romania,(2018) Art number 23, Nostalgia, The Old Biscuit Factory, London (2018).
Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Meanwhile(2017)
Art Works, Visual, Carlow Arts Festival, (2016); Utopia Dystopia, Fringe Arts Festival, Bath,UK,(2016); There’s a Ghost in My House 2, Symposium and Exhibition, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, (2015);
Sulumuc, Tactic Gallery, Sample-Studios, Cork, (2014); Land and Sea, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, (2011); Miami SCOPE Art Fair, (2010).

Reviews:
“These are paintings that deserve to be viewed close-up and sidelong, so that we are reminded why it is that people stil...