MATTHEW BRADLEY

b. 1969 Adelaide
Lives and works in Adelaide

Matthew Bradley's sculptural and performative works are the result of an experimental and original approach to thinking and making. Qualities of art relevant to his practice include those that are akin to the work of the cosmologist, the physicist and the engineer. He is known for a restrained and methodical approach to materials and form, and philosophically robust engagements with notions as diverse as risk, delinquency, power, the evolution of consciousness, the origins of the universe, the fatal attraction of the horizon and the complicated relationship of these notions to the intellectual advancement of society and the psychic renewal of the individual citizen.

www.matthewbradleystudio.com

“There is the line and there is crossing the line. Then there is making your own path...“ (excerpt from Artists Statement, 2006)

ARTIST INFORMATION

BIOGRAPHY

1969	Born, Australia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016	Forest of Lightning, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Destroyer of Worlds, GAGPROJECTS, Adelaide
2012	Space chickens help me make apple pie, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
2011	New vehicles and exploration, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2010	Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide
2008	Terminator, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide
2007	Storm Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne Monster Bike, Downtown art space, Adelaide,
2006	The Good Son, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra Empire, screening room, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
2005	The Weet Bix Kid, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2004	Dark Crystal, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2003	I’ve Been Busy, Artspace, Adelaide festival centre, Adelaide
2001	Gold Card, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018	Directors Cut, FELTspace, Adelaide
2017	The National 2017: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
2016	Dug and Digging With, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide
2015	Climate Century, Vitalstatistix and Maritime Museum, Port Adelaide Gratis, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart Spring 1883, Establishment Hotel, Sydney (GAGPROJECTS) CACSA Contemporary 2015, SASA Gallery, Adelaide
2014	How does your garden grow? Murray Bridge Regional Art Gallery, Murray Bridge
2013	Arte Magra, Australian Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide Felt Natural, FELTspace, Adelaide Pigeon Auction, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney Momentary, Adelade Film Festival, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia
2012	End of the World, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide Good mourning, FELTspace, Adelaide This is what I do, CAST gallery, Tasmania This is what I do, Metro Arts, Brisbane
2011	Labour of Love, Revisited – The Rise of Amateurism in the Age of Digital Networks, Arko Art Centre, Korea Nothing like performance, Artspace, Sydney
2010	Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of SA, Adelaide
2008	Contemporary Australia: Optimism, Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane The Flipside, The Substation, Singapore Underbelly, Ryan Renshaw Gallery, Brisbane World One Minute, Today Art Museum, Beijing Uneasy: Recent South Australian Art, Anne and Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide
2007	Bad Brains, A Little Blah Blah, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam The heavier we get, RAW Space, Brisbane UFO, Penrith Regional Gallery, NSW Late Nights, Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide Mentor Mentored 3, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide As it is - as it can be, Bus gallery, Melbourne Taking the cure, Downtown art space, Adelaide Things will be great, MOP, Sydney
2006	New Australian Video Art, Museums Quartier, Vienna Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art, Experimental ArtFoundation, Adelaide; Touring regional South Australia in 2007, in association with Country Arts SA
2005	Risk, Kings ARI, Melbourne New painting heroes, Downtown Art Space, Adelaide Project for a revolution, Westspace, Melbourne
2004	A wing and a prayer, Mildura Arts Centre, Victoria Container project, Melbourne ARI festival, Federation Square, Melbourne
2003	Z, Roslyn Oxley, Sydney
2002	Die Cast, Physics room, Christchurch, New Zealand
2001	Other Worlds, Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide
2000	Internal, Supermild lounge, Adelaide
1999	Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Llewellyn, J. 'Matthew Bradley, Destroyer of Worlds', Art Guide, March-April 2016, p. 57
Llewellyn, J. '50 Things Collectors Need to Know 2016: #33 Matthew Bradley', Art Collector, no. 75, Jan-Mar 2016, p. 168-169
Bolton, K., 'Interstellar Pie', FORM GUIDE, Nov 2012, pp. 11-13
Darlaston, K. 'Poetry in the dark' Eyeline, 2011, no. 73
Blair, U., 'Seeing in the dark', Before and after science: 2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Pub. Art Gallery of South Australia, 2010
Chambers, N., 'Monster Bike', Contemporary Australia: Optimism, pub. Queensland Art Gallery, 2008
Walker, W., 'Uneasy on the eye', The Australian, July 3 2008
Morrell, T., Uneasy : Recent South Australian Art, pub. Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, June 2008
Bolton, K., ‘Mentor Mentored 3’, exhibition catalogue, pub. CACSA, July 2007
Khan J., ‘Storm Machine’, exhibition catalogue, pub. Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, June 2007
Chapman, C., ‘Snapshot: Contemporary South Australian Art in Adelaide’, Art Monthly, Issue 194, Oct 2006
Bolton, K.. ‘Adelaide, Recent Art Recent History’, Broadsheet, vol.34 no.4, 2005
Woodburn, J., ‘Great Escape’, RealTime, no.61, 2004
Chambers, N., Z, Eyeline, no.51, 2003
Radok, S., ‘Avenge my death’, Adelaide Review, May 2002
Chapman, C., ‘Frequent Flyers’, Eyeline, no.46, 2001
‘Australia’s 50 Most Collectable Artists’, Australian Art Collector, January 2000

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