Bundanon

Julie Bradley is a professional artist working at the Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) studios in Canberra. Her mixed media works on paper explore ideas of connectedness and express emotional states of being. In these works she is not only exploring the formal arrangement of shapes and playing with compositional elements but is also communicating the emotion derived from direct experiences of being in places and landscapes that move her in some way. Every place walked by the artist engenders an emotional response. This is translated into colour, shape and line, and the artworks tell the story of that place through the use of vibrant colour, organic and geometric shapes and composition.

Bradley’s residency at Bundanon was time for her to develop common themes, and produce works with attention to bodily elements such as tension/relation between interior and exterior space, personal space and implied functionality/dysfunctionality.Using the techniques of stencilling, collage and drawing, Julie Bradley created works on paper which investigate the idea of connectedness and express aspects of an emotional landscape and states of being.

Bradley was also in residence at Bundanon in 2009 and 2012.