William Bradley
William Bradley graduated from Wimbledon MA in 2008, his end of year show works selling to a private collector and currently on loan to the University of the Arts London collection. Selected for Future Map 08 in the David Roberts foundation, Bradley is part of the collection and has continued links with the foundation. This year he was shortlisted for the Catlin Art prize and has exhibited with Maddox Arts. Bradley’s work is both abstract art and about abstract art. Viewing the idea of the pure abstract language as problematised by its lack of communication from artist to viewer, Bradley builds in a more communal language of references or quotes from abstract art history, from Abstract Expressionism and artists such as John Hoyland, Sandra Blow and Eduardo Chillida, in the form of forms, marks and processes.
Clean Sweep
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Painting
120cm x 120cm
Oil on canvas
These works looks to question how meaning is created within abstract painting. By readdressing abstract art’s significance within Modernism, Bradley hopes to both re-establish a connection to modernist approaches but also question their motives, embracing quotation and references to popular culture as a means of questioning the autonomy of abstract painting.
£2,000
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