Ry David Bradley
b. 1979, Australia
“All of Bradley’s male faces—there are no bodies, only heads – are an unholy, unsavoury mix of black, white and grey and all are aggressively, maliciously in-your-face. They bring to mind the visionary insanity of Ludwig Meidner’s pre-World War I apocalyptic faces and of George Baselitz’s post-World War II pandemonium portraits.”
– Donald Kuspit, 2021
Bradley is known as one of the artists at the forefront of new artistic theories and practices exploring the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art and society.
Bradley creates digital tapestries which he calls ‘Classical Digital’, as they relate to both the past and the present. His framed tapestries are woven from acrylic threads with a 1970s Japanese technique that succeeded in achieving the highest possible resolution of images in tapestry form before the advent of digital printing in the 1980s which made this analogue method obsolete. Although the tapestry appears black and white, it is in fact woven from coloured thread.