In this monumental new exhibition Australian contemporary artist Ry David Bradley captures significant moments of turmoil in our current world - from the global lockdown during the pandemic, to war and global struggles, and finally to regrowth and a more cosmic perspective on it all. Five new, large scale works present dramatic images of this increasingly unsettled world, encouraging us to pause and reflect on the chaos of the last few years that we have collectively witnessed.
Bradley has used this exhibition to extend his longstanding investigation into what painting might mean in the 21st century. Using a hybrid of digital imaging and painting, combining pixels with oil paint and the gestural strokes of the artist's hand, Bradley constructs work that juxtapose and blur the boundaries between the two. In these hybrid works history and speculation refuse to collapse into one another.
In a period of new, intensive experimentation Bradley can rightly claim a pioneering role in this new and entwined potentiality of painting and technology.
Ry David Bradley was born in Melbourne in 1979 and has lived and worked in London, Paris and Melbourne. He gained a Master of Fine Art at Melbourne University's Victorian College of the Arts and has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in Australia and at Art Fairs in New York, London, Milan, Los Angeles, Berlin and Paris. Bradley's work is held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lyon Housemuseum and in numerous private collections around the world.