Artwork: Whispers on the way and Finding my way 2021
Artist: Julie Bradley
Medium: mixed media gouache and collage on watercolour paper
Dimensions: 2 @ 77 x 28.5cm
Acquisition: An acquisition of the ACT Legislative Assembly Art Advisory Committee, 2023
Asset nos: OLA002642 & OLA002643
About the Work
Julie Bradley’s work is distinctive in its approach to abstraction and her use of materials, such as Japanese papers, gouache washes and line, to create illusions of space. Bradley created this pair of works as a response to studying the Bundian Way at the ANU during lockdown in 2021. The Bundian Way is a pathway used by Indigenous peoples to travel to and from the high country in the Snowy Mountains to the sea at Eden, an ancient Aboriginal track that links the Canberra region with the South Coast.
About the Artist
Julie Bradley has over 30 years’ experience, including many solo exhibitions in the ACT, NSW and most recently, Essence–works on paper, at Montsalvat, Victoria in 2022.
Bradley trained as a printmaker at the Australian National University, Canberra School of Art. She also studied as a printmaker at the University of New South Wales where she received a Graduate Diploma in Professional Art Studies. She was a founding member of the Studio One print workshop (est.1983) in Canberra where she worked as an atelier printer, and printmaking and drawing tutor.
Her work has been selected for group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. She has been a member of CraftACT, CCAS, M16 Artspace and ANCA. Bradley has undertaken several residencies, including Bundanon Trust, NSW (2009, 2010 and 2014); the Intensive Studies Program, Taos, New Mexico (2010); and the Australian Tapestry Workshop, Melbourne (2012). In 2017 she was artist-in-residence at Hill End in Haefliger’s cottage, and in 2019 she was the Visiting Fellow at the Ballinglen Art Foundation and held a solo exhibition at the Galway City Gallery. Awards include the Wildlife and Botanical Artists Prize, the Weereewa Works on Paper Prize, the Goulburn Art Award; the M16 Artspace Drawing Prize; the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award; the Sunshine Coast Art Award, and the Rick Amor Drawing Prize. Her works are in pubic collections such as the National Gallery of Australia; Bundanon Trust; CMAG; the Australian National University and the University of Canberra.