ABOUT

Jacqueline Bradley is an artist concerned with bodily relationships to the outdoors. She investigates the ways human and non-human systems come together to create this imagined site – an outdoors - a construct that is permeable and flimsy but filled with expectations, mythologies, and growth.

Her practice begins with found objects and plant matter, which are further extended through casting, construction and sewing. The artworks shift between intimate and immense; assemblages of ideas, places, times, stories, and experiences, in which meanings are multiple and simultaneous. Bradley frames the outdoors as site where complex and pressing issues intersect; issues of history, ecology, colonisation, gender and geology. In her works, the outdoors emerge as a collection of entangled systems and meticulous processes of which she is only a part.

Bradley has exhibited and collaborated with artists and curators in Australia and internationally, and worked with national parks staff and landscape architects on projects regarding performance in the landscape in Canada and Australia. In recent years, she has developed projects for the National Portrait Gallery, the Drill Hall Gallery and the South Australian touring exhibition I’m a feminist, but...

In early 2019 Jacqueline was funded by Arts ACT and the Australian Embassy in Washington to exhibit works from her PhD series Am I doing this right? and to develop and construct a large artwork on at the Embassy Gallery in Washington. Her work was discussed in Columbia Universities Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, and she has recently completed work on a new project for the Unsolicited Proposals Unit, curated by Eleanor Scicchitano, shown at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, ACT and Post Office Projects, SA. In 2022 Bradley undertook a residency at the Canberra Glassworks, and exhibited a solo exhibition at the Glassworks Gallery.

Dr Bradley is a lecturer at the National Art School, and works between Sydney and Canberra.

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