Approved: 26.06.2020

Fiona Bradford

Artist

Approved: 26.06.2020

My inter-disciplinary practice combines elements of traditional painting with collage, fresco & printmaking.  As a remote practitioner my interests lie in what is immediately near.  Currently my research focuses on marginalia & redactive strategies.  The work is neither formulaic nor wedded to any specific niche, it's experimental.  This is not a tactic for avoidance or resolution but a curiosity about the transformative potential of the medium.

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Artist Statement

My inter-disciplinary practice combines elements of traditional painting with collage, fresco & printmaking.  As a remote practitioner my interests lie in what is immediately near.  Currently my research focuses on marginalia & redactive strategies.  The work is neither formulaic nor wedded to any specific niche, it's experimental.  This is not a tactic for avoidance or resolution but a curiosity about the transformative potential of the medium.

 

 

CV & Education

EDUCATION

2016            M.A Fine Art Arts University Bournemouth 

2012            B.A.Fine Art [Hons] (First Class) Plymouth University

2010            FdA Fine Art & Design Somerset College of Art & Design

2002            B.Sc [Hons] Psychology The Open University

 

EXHIBITIONS

2019 Pedestrian Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre Taunton

         Brewhouse Somerset Square Hordings Exhibition Coal Orchard Taunton

        Spring Exhibition G&C Gallery Tunbridge Wells

        Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives

2018 Still Life G&C Gallery Tunbridge Wells

         Back & Beyond CIC Taunton

         TLC Deck of Cards Auction The Lightbox Gallery Woking

         Spot the Artist Porthmeor Studios St Ives

2017 National Art Open OXO Tower Wharf London

         Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts Piccadilly London

         The Observatory Exhibition University of Exeter

         Threads Dundas St Gallery Edinburgh

         M.A & Other Postgraduates The Atkinson Gallery Millfield Street

         Threads The Espacio Gallery Bethnal Green Rd London

2016  East-West Art Award (EWAAC) Finalists' Exhibition La Galleria Pall Mall London 

         Suddenly Last Summer The Gallery Arts University Bournemouth

         Graft M.A Show  Arts University Bournemouth

         Art at the Heart The Royal United Hospital Bath

2015  Momentum Exhibition (SAW) Brewhouse Theatre & Arts Centre Taunton

          The Royal West of England Academy Annual Open Bristol

          Drawn RWA Bristol

          Quartz Visual Arts Festival Queens College Taunton

          Art for Life Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton

2014   Venue 91  Somerset Art Weeks (SAW)  Open Studios

           Transformation S.C.A.N  Somerton

           Art for Life Musgrove Park Hospital Taunton

2013   Somerset Contemporary Artists Network S.C.A.N.  Grant Bradley Gallery Bristol

           One Voice, Many Colours  The Meeting House Ilminster

           Quartz Visual Art Festival Queens College Taunton

2012   Somerset Contemporary Artists Network S.C.A.N.  The Meeting House Ilminster

           38 Graduate Show  Somerset College of Art & Design Taunton 

           Millfield Summer Show The Atkinson Gallery Millfield Street 

2011   Multicollored  The Collar Factory, Taunton, Somerset

           Cymistry Crescent Contemporary Taunton

2010  The Art Bin The South London Gallery London