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Episode 09 - Flora Bradwell
Liminal Gallery Podcast host, Louise Fitzjohn, speaks with contemporary artist Flora Bradwell, who has artwork in our current group exhibition 'Try a little...Tenderness' which opened on 4th February in our Margate-based Gallery.
A compulsion towards the carnivalesque and a vibrant trashy aesthetic are key to Flora Bradwell's playful practice. Encompassing painting, sculpture, video and performance Flora's work revels in the generously grotesque. Compositions of frescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a fantastical filter to create dimly recognisable imagined worlds. Camp and theatrics are employed to demonstrate the ridiculousness of patriarchal systems and gossip fuels visual flights of fancy as the props of daily life are put on a pedestal.
Bradwell completed her BA in Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2009 and her MFA at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. While at the Slade Bradwell received the The Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary.
Bradwell is a recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award 2023 and artist in Residence at Van Gogh Huis in April 2023. Bradwell's work has been exhibited, screened and performed internationally including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Nunnery Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts in London, at Future DMND, LA, Zaratan, Lisbon and at the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck. Bradwell has completed residencies at Elephant Lab, London(2022), Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, SIM, Reykjavik (2021) and Colart, London (2019). Bradwell also curates art events, exhibitions and happenings across the UK and is Co-Director of Bad Art.
Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness.
A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth.
Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness’ brings together the works of Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Flora Bradwell and Damien Flood whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments.
Read the full press release here:
https://www.liminal-gallery.com/try-a-little-tenderness
Contact us: [email protected]
Follow us on Instagram: @liminal_gallery
With original music by Lorenzo Bonari.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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By Louise FitzjohnLiminal Gallery Podcast host, Louise Fitzjohn, speaks with contemporary artist Flora Bradwell, who has artwork in our current group exhibition 'Try a little...Tenderness' which opened on 4th February in our Margate-based Gallery.
A compulsion towards the carnivalesque and a vibrant trashy aesthetic are key to Flora Bradwell's playful practice. Encompassing painting, sculpture, video and performance Flora's work revels in the generously grotesque. Compositions of frescoes, cult manifestoes and nursery rhymes are squeezed through a fantastical filter to create dimly recognisable imagined worlds. Camp and theatrics are employed to demonstrate the ridiculousness of patriarchal systems and gossip fuels visual flights of fancy as the props of daily life are put on a pedestal.
Bradwell completed her BA in Painting at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2009 and her MFA at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. While at the Slade Bradwell received the The Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary.
Bradwell is a recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Award 2023 and artist in Residence at Van Gogh Huis in April 2023. Bradwell's work has been exhibited, screened and performed internationally including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Nunnery Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts in London, at Future DMND, LA, Zaratan, Lisbon and at the European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck. Bradwell has completed residencies at Elephant Lab, London(2022), Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, SIM, Reykjavik (2021) and Colart, London (2019). Bradwell also curates art events, exhibitions and happenings across the UK and is Co-Director of Bad Art.
Tender moments, tender flesh, tender touch, tender thoughts, tender heart, tender mind; try a little tenderness.
A tender moment is encapsulated in an act of thoughtfulness; a cup of tea at the end of the day, a gift of flowers, a display of love. Tenderness is to give up one's time, attention, precious moments devoted to another. Tenderness is also pain, a moment of fragility, of weakness. It evokes skin which expands, shrinks, multiplies, and shivers to the touch. Skin which is a dying organism, for surely that is what we all are. A tender morsel of meat, deliciously melts in the mouth.
Exploring these themes in contrasting ways ‘Try a little Tenderness’ brings together the works of Ingrid Berthon-Moine, Flora Bradwell and Damien Flood whose practice is unified in the attempt to capture these fleeting moments.
Read the full press release here:
https://www.liminal-gallery.com/try-a-little-tenderness
Contact us: [email protected]
Follow us on Instagram: @liminal_gallery
With original music by Lorenzo Bonari.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.