ABOUT

Jacqueline Bradley is an artist concerned with bodily relationships to the outdoors. Through objects, performances and installations, she explores the role textiles and clothing play in constructing and mediating experiences of the landscape.

Her practice begins with manual labour, found plant matter and garden detritus. The works shift between intimate and immense; assemblages of ideas, places, times, stories and experiences. Bradley frames the outdoors as site where complex and pressing issues intersect; issues of history, ecology, colonization, 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 recently discussed in Columbia Universities Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary, and she is currently working on a new project for the Unsolicited Proposals Unit, curated by Eleanor Scicchitano.

She works from her backyard studio and lectures at the National Art School, Sydney.

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