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 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 multiple publications, including Columbia Universities Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, and in 2022 she completed a residency at the Canberra Glassworks, culminating in her solo show, ‘the tender’. She has continued to develop both conceptual and material leads from this residency, recently shown in Sydney at Minerva gallery, in South Australia at Post Office projects as well as in Contour 556, Canberra’s Public Art Biennial.

Dr Bradley divides her time between her studio at the Canberra Glassworks, and her lecturing role at the National Art School, Sydney.

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