Biography

Rebecca Bradley CV

Artist Details

Phone number: 00353 ( 0 )87 2318362

Instagram: @memorygram

Artists Statement

Born in London, Rebecca Bradley has lived in Cork for 33 years . She has a Masters in Art and Process from MTU Crawford, and is a board member of Sample-Studios. Her work is held in public and private collections in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, U.K., and U.S.A.. In 2021 she was awarded the Arts Council agility award, and in 2019 she was selected for the Mark Rothko Arts Centre residency in Rothko’s birth town in Latvia. She has also been awarded a studio and accommodation residency in St. Pol De Leon, on the Atlantic Coast in France in April 2024.

Education:

2012-13: Masters fine art and process, MTU Crawford College Art and Design, Cork

2003-2007: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, MTU Crawford College Art and Design, Cork

1994: Hdip Co-op Organisation, Food Marketing, and Rural Development, University College Cork

1988-91: BSC (Hons) Sociology, Kingston University, Surrey

Solo Exhibitions:

2021: MTU Gallery, Cork, Slip Stream, release of new publication Edgelands with an essay by Sarah Kelleher to accompany this new body of work

2020: Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, Open To Art, On-line exhibition.

2017: Stern View Gallery, Cork, The More You See the Less You Hold. A new publication Still There and Ready, (in collaboration with Sarah Hayden) was released to coincide with this exhibition and was selected by Oonagh Young for the 2017 Dublin Art Book Fair in Temple Bar gallery.

2016: Seamus Ennis Arts Centre, Naul, Vestiges of Place, selected solo show.

2015: Stern View Gallery, Cork: Provisional View an invited solo show at Sternview Gallery as part of music and arts Festival Sounds from A Safe Harbour.

2013: Parade, Margate, UK, Situate, gallery-based residency and exhibition.

2010: Enniskillen Visual Arts Festival, Installation of 30 paintings of postcard dimensions.

2009: Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Co. Cork, Soft Days.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2024: January, The Lord Mayors Pavilion,Cork, Hidden Pasts, Potential Futures.

2023: September, One Space Culture, Where is This Place?, Rathcoramac, Cork, Ireland

2023: July, Ciacla, Building Bridges Gallery, Los Angeles, Irish Contemporaries 2023, U.S.

2023: June Clonmel Arts Festival, Narrow Space, Co. Tipperary, Ireland

2022: November: Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles, The Irish Contemporaries (1)

2022: October: Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Earth Rising, Botanical Laboratory, exhibition and performance with Breaking Cover Collective.

2022: August: Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork, Sample Studios Exhibition.

2022: August: Lavit Gallery, Cork, Clay and Canvas

2021: December: A4 Sounds, Dublin, In Cahoots with the Earth.

2021: December: Sternview Gallery, Cork, Annual 4

2021: September: Irish Museum Modern Art, Breaking Cover Performance,

2021: July: West Cork Arts Centre, Effervescence

2021: June: West Cork Arts Centre, Standstill

2020: December: Sternview Gallery, Cork , Annual 3.

2020: December: Lavit Gallery, Cork, Christmas Exhibition

2020: December: The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Sample-Studios Members Show

2020: September: Sternview gallery, Cork, Memory Edits curated by Pádraig Spillane.

2020: August-October: Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Stories From Lismore and Beyond curated by Paul McAree.

2020: July: Thissio, Athens, Athens Art Open.

2020: January: Latvian National Library, Riga, Group Exhibition curated by The Mark Rothko Art Centre.

2019: December: This is a Painting Show, Sternview Gallery, Cork.

2019: Oct-November: Exhibition, residency/symposium at The Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia.

2019: July: Lewisham Art House, London, We each have our own landscape.

2019: May: Thompson House, Cork, Design Pop.

2018: November: Lavit Gallery, Cork, Small works

2018: August: Municipal Art Gallery of Piraeus, Athens

2108: July: Misc Arts, Timisoara, Romania,

2018: June: Gonzo Unit, Thresholds, Thessaloniki, Greece

2018: May: Art number 23, The Old Biscuit Factory, London.

2017: Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, Meanwhile.

2016: Visual, Carlow, Art works; selected by Annie Fletcher and Claire Feeley as part of Carlow arts festival

2016: Walcot Chapel, Bath, UK, Utopia Dystopia; as part of Fringe Arts Bath

2015: CIT Crawford School of art, invited speaker, and exhibitor at There’s a ghost in my house 2, symposium, and exhibition.

2014: Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Ireland ,Exposure

2013: Tactic Gallery, Cork, Sulumuc

2013: Doswell Gallery Selected group exhibition

2012: Cork School of Architecture MA art & process degree show Outbox

2012: Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, (un)doing, Engagements with process

2011: Elysian, Cork; Art Embassy, as part of Cork Art Trail

2011: Doswell Gallery, Rosscarberry, Ireland, Land and sea

2011: Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Land and Sea, A group of 4 selected landscape artists.

2010: Miami SCOPE Art Fair Selected.

2010: Ballymaloe Grain Store, Cork, Harvest, an exhibition of 7 women Artists

2010: Affordable art fair, Battersea Park, London represented by St.art gallery

2010: Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownberre, Awards Show selected for the New Year Show

2009: St.art Gallery, Twickenham, U.K., Collection 1

2008: Gallerie Nautique, Cork, Group Show

2007: CIT Crawford College of Art, Cork, Degree Show

Reviews and Essays:

“For all the urgency of her subject matter and approach, this is not anxious or melancholic work, but is expressive of enormous, questioning energy and determination. These paintings could be banners or flags, radiant in their stained, saturated materiality.”
Sarah Kelleher, 2021, Edge Lands, An essay as part of publication to accompany this new body of work.

“Where Bradley’s work often incorporates not alone a highly worked, ridged surface, but even rubble, charcoal and earth so that the canvas projects physically into the space of the gallery, the Illegible Frontiers paintings are unusually sheer. What material thickness they have is all birch backing. In places, the pigment seems barely there at all. More stain than slick. Intently insubstantial. And yet, through evanescent oil and varnish washes, the grain of the wood asserts itself—insists upon the primacy of what prevails directly beneath. Image and support cleave from each other, stirringly. The effect is vibratory. “ Dr. Sarah Hayden, 2017, Still There and ready, publication and spoken word essay from collaboration on Illegible Frontiers body of work, pg.6.

‘Rebecca Bradley integrates paintings with large scale installation work and utilises found objects scavenged from defunct sites. Her work is a way of recording a history of events, but far from being a depressing representation of decline it is imbued with a sense of excitement for the possibility of change and the expectation of what may lie around the next corner.’ Review of Meanwhile, by Judy Fisher in The Thin Air, 2017

‘Outstanding textural paintings based on landscape’ Aidan Dunne, chief art critic of the Irish Times, Review of Rebecca’s work, June 2007

Born in London, Rebecca has lived, worked and studied in Ireland for the past 30 years. Her work is held in public and private collections in France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Switzerland, U.K., and U.S.A.. In 2021 she was awarded the Arts Council agility award, and in 2019 she was selected for the Mark Rothko Arts Centre residency.

Education

2012-13: Masters fine art and process, CIT Crawford College Art and Design, Cork

2003-2007: BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, CIT Crawford College Art and Design, Cork