Jyll Bradley’s wide ranging artistic practice has encompassed
photo-based studio work such as light boxes and her unique
‘light drawings’, public art projects in which
she has worked closely with local communities, and the writing
of plays for radio. In all her work she makes the political
personal, but always with a poetic sensibility to place and
individual identity. Bradley’s studio work has been
inspired by aspects of minimalism and feminism. She makes
beautiful, enigmatic objects often containing parallel narratives
whose meaning in never fully fixed. Light is an important
protagonist in her work and she talks of using it to “bring
things into the present”. Her public projects have involved
a collaborative search for meaning in “place”.
Jyll Bradley (b.Folkestone 1966) was educated at Goldsmiths
College (1985–88) and the Slade (1991–3). Since
the early 1990s she has exhibited her work in numerous notable
exhibitions both in the UK and internationally including The
British Art Show, Hayward Gallery, London and tour (1990),
Maureen Paley Interim Art (1989), the Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool (2008) and the inaugural show at the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, London (2009). Bradley has also undertaken major
commissions for the re-opening of Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2005),
and solo British Council funded projects with Museo De Antioquia,
Medellin, Colombia and Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou,
China (both 2004). In 2008 her Residency within Liverpool
Botanical Collection formed one of the significant commissions
for the city’s year as European Capital of Culture.
Bradley’s work was recently the subject of a major survey
show Airports for the Lights, Shadows and Particles first
shown at The Exchange (Newlyn Art Gallery) in 2010 and touring
to the Bluecoat, Liverpool 2011. She is currently working
on a major project for Canberra’s Centenary programme
in 2013.
Bradley will have her first solo exhibition with Mummery +
Schnelle in 2014.
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